"Approximately 60 percent" of requests from U.S. authorities contained these gagging orders.
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Cases rarely go to court and, when they are settled instead, executives are hit with gagging orders.
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Facebook has seen an increase in the number of data requests from governments, stating that nearly two–thirds come with gagging orders.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain must stop the widespread abuse of so-called gagging orders to silence victims of discrimination and harassment, parliamentarians said on Tuesday.
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She was keen to see an end to non disclosure agreements (NDAs) - so-called gagging orders - used to muzzle victims of discrimination and harassment when reaching settlements.
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A British investigation (Panorama, 9 June 2008) estimates that around $23 billion (£11.75 billion) may have been lost, stolen or not properly accounted for in Iraq. The United States Department of Justice has imposed gagging orders that prevent further investigation.
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In 2015, a half-dozen students filed a complaint through sexual harassment attorney and Oxford alumna Ann Olivarius against Oxford for what The Times called an “epidemic” of sexual misconduct.Sian Griffiths, “Oxford struck by 'epidemic' of harassment, says lawyer,” The Times, 9 August 2015.”Law firm calls for staff-student sex ban at Oxford Uni,” Oxford Mail, 11 August 2015. Oxford has also been accused of using non-disclosure agreements or ‘gagging orders’ to silence students who report sexual harassment.Greg Barradale, “Universities have spent £1.3 million on gagging orders to silence students,” The Tab, 12 February 2020.
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The Zircon affair was an incident in 1986 and 1987 caused by the planned broadcast on the BBC of a television programme about the ultimately cancelled Zircon signals intelligence satellite, as part of the six-part Secret Society series. It raised many important issues in the British constitution, particularly concerning parliamentary privilege and "gagging orders".
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However, the gagging orders of the 1920s remained curtailing the freedom of press and restrictions on public speeches and meetings. In response, a 'Hyderabad People's Convention' was created, with a working committee of 23 leading Hindus and 5 Muslims. The convention ratified a report, which was submitted to the Constitutional Reforms Committee in January 1938. However, four of the five Muslim members of the working committee refused to sign the report, reducing its potential impact.
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By May 2011, Private Eye claimed to be aware of 53 super-injunctions and anonymised privacy injunctions, though Lord Neuberger's report into the use of super-injunctions revealed that only two super-injunctions had been granted since January 2010. Many media sources were wrongly describing all gagging orders as super- injunctions. The widespread media coverage of super-injunctions led to a drop in numbers after 2011; however four were granted in the first five months of 2015.
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The firm was founded in 1984 by Keith Schilling and Nicholas Lom and focused largely on media law, libel, and privacy protection. It was called by Index on Censorship as "the scourge of many a Fleet Street editor" for obtaining anonymised gagging orders to protect celebrity clients' privacy. In the early 2010s, the firm began to move away from pure media and libel work towards reputation protection for a largely corporate, non-celebrity clientele. In 2012 Schillings acquired the information security firm Vigilante Bespoke.
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In recent years, the University has paid tens of thousands of pounds to settle sexual harassment claims but announced in 2018 that it would abandon non-disclosure settlements."Sex harassment victims force University College London to end gagging orders," The Times, 28 July 2018. The University made the decision after physicist Emma Chapman sued the institution for sexual harassment though the law firm of Ann Olivarius and then won the legal right to speak freely about her abuse at the University. Chapman settled the case for £70,000.
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According to WikiLeaks, "the Guardian [has] been served with 10 secret gag orders —so-called 'super-injunctions'— [between January and September 2009]. In 2008, the paper was served with six. In 2007, five." In 2011, gagging orders that applied to themselves, or "super-injunctions" as they were called, were being referred to almost daily in the United Kingdom after a number of high-profile public figures, including celebrities and politicians, censored the British media from revealing information about their personal lives, such as affairs and dealings with prostitutes.
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In August 2019 whistleblower accounts from seven current and former TI Secretariat staff emerged alleging a “toxic” workplace culture under the current Managing Director, Patricia Moreira. Reported in The Guardian, the alleged misconduct reported ranged from gagging orders in termination agreements, to bullying and harassment of critical internal voices. Moreira and other senior managers were alleged to have targeted dissident staff members and bullied them toward resignation. The report cited a staff survey carried out by works council staff representatives, which found that 66% of 92 respondents had observed or experienced bullying at TI and one in five felt sexual harassment to be a problem.
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In August 2019, The Guardian reported on how current and former staff members of Transparency International had said that under Moreira it had promoted a culture of "bullying" and "failed in its duty of care" and used "gagging orders" in termination agreements. The report cited a staff survey carried out by the staff representatives (works council), which found that 66% of 92 respondents had observed or experienced bullying at TI and one in five felt sexual harassment to be a problem. Two investigations followed, conducted by law firm Taylor Wessing and Transparency International’s Ethics Panel.The findings, which were also disputed by Moreira, identified some individual incidents in which the values and principles of transparency and accountability were not ensured entirely, and one case that might qualify as harassment at the workplace.
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