As I think readers will surely know by now, John Hemming MP used Parliamentary privilege yesterday (23 May) to name the footballer whose anonymity is protected in this privacy case by an injunction, which the High Court decided earlier today to maintain in force.
Since then, first Sky News and now the BBC have named the footballer on air. They’re clearly making a judgement that although the law is unclear on whether it’s legally safe to report what’s said in Parliament that flouts a court order, the risk of any successful legal action against them for contempt of court is so low that it’s well worth taking the residual legal risk.
