Jennifer James grapples with a transatlantic tweeting sensation, Mr Monkey & the Fourth Estate
The recent controversy about super-injunctions raises some intriguing questions, not least whether Ryan Giggs now believes he had good advice and good value for his litigation spend with Schillings; I’m guessing in the region of £250,000, and rising fast.
The story he was trying to stifle is even news stateside where they see football, sorry, soccer, as a girls’ game.
Why this transatlantic interest? Well, Giggs’s lawyers applied to obtain information from Twitter, based in California, concerning what they call “the unlawful use of Twitter by a small number of individuals who may have breached a court order.” With thousands Tweeting about Giggs, this reference to a “small number” suggests that Schillings wish to target particular users. If press insiders with actual knowledge of Giggs’s injunction used anonymous Twitter accounts to “out” him, or if individuals fixed with actual knowledge that CTB and Ryan Giggs were one Tweeted to that effect, they would, of course, be in contempt of court, and in breach of the injunction. As the latter sounds in
