Super-injunction
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public. UK
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From super- + injunction.
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