Mirror legal veteran Marcus Partington argues that the courts are failing to respect the wishes of Parliament on privacy

In Legal Week’s recent interview with Keith Schilling in the article Private Versus Public Keith has, I’m afraid, got away with a couple of distortions about privacy actions. He comments: “Parliament has legislated in favour of privacy” and that as regards injunctions it is “not secret justice between the claimant and the court”. He says that “the media are also involved; generally it is tripartite, which is the whole point of an injunction, as the media need to know the terms of the injunction to be bound by it”.