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Giggs sets courts at war with Parliament

THE courts and MPs were locked in a power struggle last night after the naming of Ryan Giggs as the star at the centre of the super-injunction storm.

Just a day after the Sunday Herald revealed his identity to readers in Scotland, Liberal Democrat backbencher John Hemming used parliamentary privilege to name the Premier League footballer.

The move led to Giggs’s name being revealed by newspapers and broadcasters across the UK, after a weekend when tens of thousands had named him on the Twitter micro-blogging site and on numerous websites.