What the Afghan ‘Super-Injunction’ Tells Us About the UK

‘Treason’: UK’s secret plan to resettle thousands of Afghans revealed after ‘super-injunction’ lifted

The UK has been rocked by a “shocking” scandal after it was revealed the government launched a $14 billion secret resettlement plan for thousands of Afghans.

Super-injunctions have no place in our judicial system

They have strayed far from tittle-tattle about cheating celebrities into serious matters of public policy

Afghan data breach super injunction 'deeply disturbing' for press freedom, says Lewis Goodall

News Agents podcast co-host Lewis Goodall has warned that the wide-ranging super injunction used to silence UK media for two years sets a “profoundly dangerous” precedent. Goodall was the first journalist to become aware of a Government data leak which put thousands of Afghan nationals who had supported the British military at risk. After receiving a text from a Whitehall source about the story in August 2023, Goodall contacted the Ministry of D…

What the Afghan ‘super-injunction’ tells us about the UK

Parliament and regulators are shrugging off a decision that freed the government from accountability

The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications

Following a catastrophic administrative error placing the lives of thousands of Afghans at risk, the UK government obtained a super-injunction, enabling it to attempt to clear up the mess it had created behind a veil of impenetrable secrecy. The courts’ willingness to keep the super-injunction in place for nearly two years raises fundamental constitutional questions. The background to the super-injunction granted to prevent both the discloure of…

Why have the terms of the now-discharged Afghan super-injunction not been published?

17th July 2025 There can be no good reason now for the substantial terms of the court order to be hidden (subject to redactions) * Now, here is a puzzle. A couple of days ago, a raft of materials was published by the United Kingdom judiciary office in respect of what we can now call the Afghan super-injunction. (A super-injunction is when the court order forbids even any public disclosure that the injunction exists.) These materials were publi…