Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, Mr Hemming said it would not be practical to imprison the 75, Twitter users who had named the player. The High Court rejected two attempts on Monday to overturn the ban, the first after a Scottish paper named the footballer on Sunday, and the second after Mr Hemming's action.
Media lawyers think it is likely that the publishers of the Sun newspaper will try to get it lifted again on Tuesday. The footballer's lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him.
The Attorney General Dominic Grieve has updated the Cabinet following the announcement of joint committee of peers and MPs to investigate the use of privacy orders.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said David Cameron had described what was happening as unsustainable, with privacy law evolving through judgements and information circulating on the internet. He said the committee had been established at it was a complicated issue and required serious thought.
Our correspondent said if no solution could be found there could be a stream of cases going to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that the government had failed to protect their right to privacy. A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs. Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75, Twitter users who had named the player.
The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted. It rejected two attempts on Monday to overturn the ban, the first after a Scottish paper named the footballer on Sunday, and the second after Mr Hemming's action. The footballer's lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him.
Parliamentary privilege protects MPs and peers from prosecution for statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords. House of Commons speaker John Bercow interrupted the MP saying: "Let me just say to the honourable gentleman, I know he's already done it, but occasions such as this are occasions for raising the issues of principle involved, not seeking to flout for whatever purpose. But he is an energetic campaigner who used parliamentary privilege last month to name a woman involved in a child custody case who was threatened with jail for speaking to politicians.
Until he focused on injunctions, Hemming was best known for campaigning against what he regards as an overly tough approach by family courts. As chairman of Justice for Families, he has campaigned on behalf of a mother who was forbidden from seeing her daughter on the grounds that she was not "clever enough" to look after the child.
Politicians were highly critical of Hemming for naming Giggs. Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, told Channel 4 News: "It is an abuse. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor mediatheguardian. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". This article is more than 9 years old.
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