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Mr Marr's comments follow a number of recent injunctions which have banned the identification of celebrities. Mr Hislop, who has twice challenged Mr Marr's super-injunction, said: "As a leading BBC interviewer who is asking politicians about failures in judgment, failures in their private lives, inconsistencies, it was pretty rank of him to have an injunction while working as an active journalist.

In his interview in the Mail, Mr Marr said injunctions seemed to be "running out of control" and he confirmed he had taken one himself to prevent the publication of details about the affair, which happened eight years ago while he was BBC political editor. At the time he believed he had fathered a child with the woman, but later found out through a DNA test this was not the case. He said: "Am I embarrassed by it?

Am I uneasy about it? But he added: "I also had my own family to think about, and I believed this story was nobody else's business. Mr Marr - who hosts a Sunday politics show on BBC One - went on to say he knew injunctions were "controversial, and the situation seems to be running out of control".

Both lawyers compared the current situation with the notorious s Spycatcher case, in which the British government tried to ban ex-intelligence officer Peter Wright from publishing his autobiography. The book was published in Australia and in many other foreign countries and was smuggled into Britain. The UK government eventually gave up its attempt to ban it. One of the best-publicized uses of a super injunction was the case of shipping company Trafigura in , which forbade discussion of allegations the company had dumped toxic waste in Ivory Coast.

While the Giggs case did not involve a super-injunction - and so was not exempt from being reported altogether — a story that was and which was subsequently brought to light concerned TV presenter Andrew Marr.

The presenter and former Independent editor applied for the protection in to conceal an extramarital affair before revealing its existence to The Daily Mail himself in a interview. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?

His comments come amid a growing disquiet at the use by celebrities of injunctions and so-called superinjunctions to prevent media reporting of their private lives.

At least 30 superinjunctions currently appear to be in place, including one relating to allegations of water pollution and another to a right-to-die case. Private Eye editor Ian Hislop said he had challenged the Marr injunction last week. Hislop said he thought the superinjunction had been "a touch hypocritical" because Marr had written an article saying that parliament — not judges — should determine privacy law.

Hislop said Private Eye did not have the money to challenge all superinjunctions, adding: "Here was a case that was quite important and should be challenged so I wasted the money challenging it. Last week David Cameron sounded a warning about the way judges are creating a new law of privacy "rather than parliament".