Courts: Super-injunctions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Courts: Super-injunctions

Lord Bach Excerpts
Thursday 19th May 2011

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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I have to confess that the Ministry of Justice does not have a figure on the number of super-injunctions. I understand that the Ministry of Justice statistician, a post I was not aware of—

Lord Bach Portrait Lord Bach
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The chief statistician.

Lord McNally Portrait Lord McNally
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The noble Lord, Lord Bach, has more experience on this. The chief statistician is looking into the matter. We hope to be able to give those figures shortly.