Perhaps the most surprising thing about waking up on a Sunday morning in May to be faced with a Sunday paper featuring a close-up photograph of a well-known footballer’s face was that its publication seemed to take everyone by surprise.
By the time the Sunday Herald went to print identifying the individual footballer at the centre of the ongoing privacy injunction row in England, there had been plenty of time for all the parties concerned to consider their position. Perhaps it was just a case of not seeing the wood for the tweets. So much attention was focused on alleged breaches of the injunction by bloggers and the ‘twitterati’, and so much consideration given to the difficulties English courts would have in enforcing injunctions, that the existence of separate legal systems within the UK seemed to be overlooked once again.
