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- ↑ Siobhain Butterworth (5 August 2011). "Superinjunctions, gagging orders and injunctions: the full list | Siobhain Butterworth & Maya Wolfe-Robinson | Law | theguardian.com". theguardian.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.