The latest statistics are now available on the number of hearings relating to injunctions in civil proceedings . The data focus on applications made in the High Court and Court of Appeal in London from July 2013 – December 2013. This is the fifth statistics  bulletin on privacy injunctions of this nature.

Such applications typically consider injunctions requested to prohibit the publication of private or confidential information. They also include applications requesting the continuation of an injunction, appeals against granted injunctions and those injunctions which are refused. The report focuses on super injunctions, but includes other types as well.

Bearing in mind that the data is only for five months or so, these are the main findings as listed on the Government’s website:

• There was one proceeding in which the High Court in London considered an application for a new interim injunction prohibiting the publication of private or confidential information.