Injunction against ITN by a well known individual?

[TheRealSmurfette]

Who is it?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/16/well-known-individual-tries-to-secure-permanent-injunction-against-guardian-and-itn

Yes because ‘be kind’ has been firmly installed in you (I get it, none of us are immune).

But I wish we, as women, showed the same level of brazen self interest (if you can call it that) as men do, without the resulting embarrassed.

This man isn’t at all embarrassed that he’s throwing £££ at stopping the press reporting his sordid (entirely voluntary) behaviour, in fact he probably feels nothing but outrage that he doesn’t get to abuse people with impunity. He doesn’t care if his victims self harm due to his abuse, in fact their deaths and inability to testify would probably suit him nicely.

Never had them in the first place. In addition to be a creep, he’s a fucking terrible writer and his books are atrocious.

You in 1945 probably: it’s not fair to judge these leaders of the Nazi party, they haven’t even been on trial for war crimes yet, much less convicted.

WTF are you on about. Its too early to drink yet, surely.

Since when being kind became an insult? Yes, I feel sorry for JA even if he was a wanker. And I'm against death sentence.

The press is equally awful to women, too - wasn't there a female presenter who killed herself?

In my opinion you are not comparing like with like. I would suggest looking at the case of Noel Clarke - who lost his libel case against The Guardian for publishing allegations made by women against him.

It was the Bafta award that made women come forward. These men would have been likely to continue to abuse other people if the media had not published the allegations of brave women.

"Innocent until proven guilty but don't let young Tilly round the bounders flat!" springs to mind whenever I see the defense of high principles.

Which, if people really did believe in would survive even the airing of allegations.

What verdict? If this is the person most people assume it is, he isn't on trial for anything, so there is no issue of him being found guilty.

We could save a fortune on the criminal justice system and replace it with trial by mumsnet because they 'can just tell'

I don’t drink actually. Do you? Does it impact on your inference skills?

We can’t tell. We can however confirm that the odds of multiple unrelated women gathering to make spurious accusations against a random celebrity, with little chance of any financial benefit or even interviews as their identities are usually never revealed, is tiny. A case for Occam’s razor.

My local Sainsbury’s has a little book stall and you donate a £1 a book. Normally the table is a third full but yesterday it was overflowing with children's books. Guess who the author was...

Or we just think many many women and girls saying the same thing might be quite likely to be true.

It's sad. My son grew up listening to DW books being read to him by his dad at bedtime.

I used to like Rolf Harris as a kid. Are there any non sex obsessed men out there? 😢

I was interested in the broader issues raised in the Private Eye podcast, about Contempt of Court legislation and how this isn’t really working very well in this day and age, when the mainstream media mostly abides by the rules, but cases are being discussed all over sm, a bit like this thread 😀

As they mentioned in the discussion, I understand why it’s a criminal offense to publish or publicly discuss anything that creates a "substantial risk of serious prejudice" to a case, regardless of whether someone intended to cause harm, but then it’s also kind of ludicrous that people are frequently stating their opinions on X, Reddit and other sm sites during the trial of Russell Brand for example?

Any news on the judges ruling?

known has PPT on Victoria Derbyshire instagram.

At the end of the trial on Wednesday, Mr Justice Nicklin said he hoped to deliver a decision next week. “The court will have to reserve judgment in this case. I appreciate the urgency. I will do everything I can to deliver a judgment next week,” he said.

Thanks. 🙏

Will someone PLEASE tell me who the hell PPT is?!?!
I thought this was about DW!
Who is PPT??????

PPT is DW.

Ppt is a randomly assigned cypher used to protect the identity of an anonymous claimant

It's worth a listen for anyone interested in this.

Why is DW being called PPT?
What does PPT stand for?
Confused.

Because you can hardly have a court case about protecting identity and then use the person's initials.