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Commission is long overdue

HE had become "he who cannot be named".

Not JK Rowling’s arch villain Voldemort, but premiership footballer Ryan Giggs. No longer. Tension between Westminster and the judiciary over the granting of superinjunctions came to a dramatic head yesterday after Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming used parliamentary privilege to name the Manchester United star. Hours earlier the High Court had refused to lift the controversial superinjunction protecting the player’s privacy. What happens next?