super-injunction

noun

Etymology: From super- + injunction.

1. A legal injunction which also prohibits any mention of its existence to the media or public.

   “Miss Perroncel was at the centre of a legal row in January when former England captain John Terry took out a super-injunction – a court order so secret that no one was supposed even to mention its existence – to stop any publication of allegations that he had had an affair with her.”

   “BBC presenter Andrew Marr said on Tuesday he had taken out a superinjunction to protect his family's privacy.”