Yesterday's TUES consultation paper also set out wider concerns about free speech, amid growing fears that 'cancel culture' is stifling legitimate debate. It noted that Lord Nicholls, a Law Lord, said in a 2005 ruling that the more appropriate threshold for an injunction should be 'probably' or 'more likely than not' - a significantly higher hurdle in legal terms. It did not set out what the new measure could be.īut in 2011, a judicial committee found injunctions were being issued 'almost automatically' by 'vacation or weekend duty judges, who had no particular expertise in the field of privacy' or a full understanding of the Human Rights Act. ![]() 'The government is considering whether a higher threshold should be required,' the consultation paper said. ![]() Dominic Raab's plans would require applicants to make a more convincing argument to obtain an injunction.
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