In which Kanga and baby Roo come to the forest, and Piglet has a bath
In an effort to avoid the increasingly tiresome subject of super injunctions leading to a spat between the judiciary in the stern figure of the Lord Chief Justice no less and that well known tribune of the people in the slightly less forbidding figure of John Hemming (Lib Dem Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley), I found solace in a busy few days for news of a less elevated kind.
I have never hidden my dislike of the so called super injunction. In my old fashioned way, just as justice delayed is often justice denied, I have always believed that it is all but impossible to do justice on the basis of a secret, one-sided hearing based on affidavit as opposed to oral evidence. Injunctions are sometimes necessary to ensure that one party is not put at so much of a disadvantage in a dispute that no amount of damages can ever put right the hurt caused by the other. Sometimes, the only way is to stop something from happening in an attempt to preserve the status quo while the court has time to hear the parties and decide on their dispute.