Between 2005 and 2010, the telecoms sector generated more than 260 applications for injunctions, judgments of annulment and judicial reviews, says a report published on January 30th by the OECD, a group of mainly rich countries which includes Mexico.
The joint committee on human rights requested the government "that notice should always be given of applications for injunctions under the [Protection from Harassment] Act which related to protest activities and that the ordinary presumption that such applications should be heard in private should be reversed in such cases".
Applications for the injunction and judicial review were filed at the high court in London on Monday.
There may well have been 240 instances of applications for interim injunctions, but he produced no evidence all those injunctions against removal from Australia lasted longer than the required medical treatment, or that they turned into final orders of the court.
In a display of cross-party unanimity, Brown welcomed a question from Tory MP Peter Bottomley, who said he intended to report solicitors Carter-Ruck to their disciplinary body because of their applications for super-injunctions on behalf of their clients.
