They first tried going to the Court of Chancery and applying for injunctions prohibiting other publishers from printing their works, and this was initially successful.
Under the powers, police and local authorities will be able to apply for the injunctions, which will be issued by a county court and last up to two years, for adults who have been proven to have engaged in, encouraged or assisted gang-related violence, the Home Office said.
The Government thought 50 people would apply for an injunction in the first year.
One of our lawyers was dispatched to apply for an injunction.
He was still in shock when he instructed lawyers to apply for an injunction, but that wasn't why he told them a lie.
As a result of this, and of all the harassment since the birth, my lawyer is now going to apply for an injunction against all photographers taking pictures of Tinglan and our daughter.
JBW said in a statement that it had no option but to apply for an injunction "to protect the position of its clients and the business", after the independent production company making the Panorama film, Snapper, sent a letter alleging that the company "had breached relevant regulation, guidelines and committed unlawful acts by its agents".
It is not an overly burdensome exercise for a plaintiff to successfully apply for an interim injunction to stop publication of a story, pending a full hearing.
If he objected to the way his image was being used – to sell cigarettes, for example – he could potentially apply for a worldwide injunction via the Guernsey courts.
Ironically, it is sometimes the continuing publicity around very young defendants that makes it necessary for them to apply for a lifetime anonymity injunction once they have been released – the so-called "Mary Bell orders".
