The press is running riot with stories about Schillings and its ‘reputation management’ skills after the injunction fiasco and the cunning plan to ‘sue Twitter’. The Guardian reports ‘Injunction publicity backfires on celebrity law firm’, while predictably, The Daily Mail put the boot in rather more brutally in ‘The Injunction King, a cabal of grasping lawyers and a £2000 assault on free speech‘.
I’ll leave you the pleasure of reading this latter piece of journalism. Quite remarkable. The usual tin foil hat wearers appear to ridicule law firms, law, lawyers and anything else that they fancy commenting on from their bunkers. This was not a victory for free speech. Serious matters, hidden from public gaze by injunctions – Trafigura et al – deserve public scrutiny (and MPs raising the matter in Parliament if injuncted). Footballers and their dongles?
