HOW THE RICH PLAY SYSTEM

IT HAS been said that justice, like the Ritz Hotel, is open to all. But it is those with deep pockets who have constantly used injuctions to silence a free press…

THE BANKER

FRED GOODWIN, disgraced exhead of RBS, obtained a draconian secret ‘super-injunction’ in March 2011 to hide details of an alleged affair with a senior colleague. It was only revealed when Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott asked questions in the Lords two months later.

THE CONGLOMERATE

COMMODITIES giant Trafigura notoriously used the first superinjunction – one so secret that the public must not know it exists. In 2009, Labour MP Paul Farrelly, left, asked in Parliament about Trafigura’s dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast. The media attempted to report on this and Trafigura silenced them.

THE FOOTBALLER

CHELSEA’S John Terry sought a gagging order preventing exposure of an affair with lingerie model Vanessa Perroncel. The injunction lasted a week. The judge said freedom of speech took precedence over privacy in a case designed ‘to protect Terry’s reputation’.

THE CELEBRITIES

A MARRIED celebrity, who indulged in threesome, is currently protected by a strict injunction upheld by the Supreme Court. Judges have kept order in place, despite the celebrity being named elsewhere in the world. An A-list actor is also hiding extra-marital relations from fans after paying thousands for a gagging order. The star allegedly paid a prostitute for sex.