Unlike the acts of John Terry, Ryan Giggs and BBC Presenter Andrew Merr, Jeremy Clarkson has taken the unorthodox celeb approach to lift his injunction he had placed over his ex-wife. Claiming they have little use other than being ‘pointless and expensive’.
After being married for a year in 1989 to Alexandra Hall he had the injunction imposed. It forbade Ms Hall from reporting on any sexual or intimate acts or dealings between the pair. As well as preventing the report of intimate thoughts and feeling of Clarkson, his health or other financial affairs.
Celebs began using the legal loophole of injunctions to aid themselves when the ambiguity of Britains privacy laws was unearthed as a benefit to them, opposed to struggling to use the difficult libel laws to establish a case.
However, it does seem that Clarkson is the first to make the realisation that with modern day media ‘Facebook and Twitter mean everyone knows everything anyway... and the assumption of guilt exists about which there was nothing you could do, because like everyone else you are also bound by it’.
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