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'Public interest' decide injunction

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A super-injuction taken out by the England Football Captain John Terry, has been overturned by the High Court. The Chelsea star wanted to prevent the publication of allegations that he had an extra marital affair with the former girlfriend of another Chelsea player.

Clive Coleman, BBC legal affairs analyst, and Graham Shear, a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner who has been involved in a number of celebrity super-injunction cases, examine the implication of the ruling on the freedom of the press in reporting celebrities' private lives.

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