NEJ v Wood
NEJ v BDZ (Helen Wood) ([2011] EWHC 1972 (QB) is a 2011 High Court case involving issues of privacy in English law. On 13 April 2011, Mr. Justice King granted an anonymised privacy injunction (often erroneously referred to as a superinjunction), preventing the publication of details of an alleged extra-marital relationship between NEJ (described as "a world famous celebrity" and "an actor, well-known to the public"), and BDZ, a prostitute who claimed to have met and had sex with the actor in Dublin in December 2009. At the 13 April hearing, the judge allowed BDZ to be named as 23-year-old Helen Wood of Bolton, Greater Manchester. In its original form as granted by Mr. Justice Blake on 9 April 2011, the injunction had prevented the UK media from naming either party or reporting the reason why the injunction had been sought. There was criticism that, as in CTB v News Group Newspapers, the court had allowed the woman involved to be named, but not the man. In his decision published in July 2011, Mr. Justice King explained that Wood had been named as she did not seek anonymity, and had offered information about the case to The Sun. In an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live in May 2011, Helen Wood criticised the injunction, saying that the publication of some of the alleged names of persons involved in injunctions on Twitter had made "a mockery" of the law. , the injunction preventing the naming of NEJ remains in place. See also
2011 British privacy injunctions controversy
Ferdinand v Mirror Group Newspapers
Human Rights Act 1998

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Superinjunctions, gagging orders and injunctions: the full list The Guardian, 5 August 2011. 2011 in England
English privacy case law
2011 in United Kingdom case law