If the combination of the effective defeat of the Ryan Giggs injunction and recent comments by David Cameron on the issue of privacy injunctions are taken at face value, then the privacy jurisdiction of the High Court appears to be at an end.

If the Prime Minister of the country has effectively declared his own courts impotent to protect this right, then the vigorous, one-sided and partisan campaign conducted by the media, which in turn has led to a small (but significant) army of arm chair cyber warriors on Twitter challenging the law on this issue, then a key human right enshrined not only in the European Convention, but in a British Statute has effectively been lost. Read more on Twitterati must decide whether they are better served respecting the law or not…