super-injunction
nounEtymology From super- + injunction.
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UK A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public.
- Miss Perroncel was at the centre of a legal row in January when former England captain John Terry took out a super-injunction – a court order so secret that no one was supposed even to mention its existence – to stop any publication of allegations that he had had an affair with her.23 August 2010, Steve Doughty, The Daily Mail:
- BBC presenter Andrew Marr said on Tuesday he had taken out a superinjunction to protect his family's privacy.26 April 2011, John Plunkett, The Guardian:
- Related terms
- hyper-injunction