Super-injunction

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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