In the last three years The Guardian has published over 200 articles relating to Trafigura, the vast majority of which have referred to the ‘super-injunction’ which the company obtained against the newspaper and to Carter-Ruck’s apparent attempts to gag the reporting of Parliament. Despite this saturation coverage, some questions remain unanswered.
Before I turn to the questions I want to say something about the basic facts of the case which have become entirely lost in the furore about ‘gags’, superinjunctions and parliamentary privilege.
