Update: Carter-Ruck have backed down.
The absolute right of the UK press to report on parliament was hard-won and is normally upheld in all matters. However, the Guardian is reporting that lawyers Carter-Ruck have placed a gagging order on the paper.
Today twitter is awash with the trending topic #trafigura. Trafigura is the company that recently settled a case after it was alleged to have dumped toxic waste in the sea near the Ivory Coast, and then to have attempted to cover up these actions.
Journalists have focused their attention on a particular Parliamentary question:
Paul Farrelly MP: "To ask the secretary of state for justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura."
The Guardian was previously injuncted by Barclays to prevent the publication of documents relating to tax avaoidance services, the Press Gazette reports.
Oil is dark and opaque. It stains everything it touches.
