Website-blocking Injunctions: The Question of Legislative Basis

摘要

Over the last four years the High Court of England and Wales has granted a series of injunctions requiring the five main UK internet service providers (ISPs) to implement technical measures to block, or at least impede, access by their subscribers to websites which infringe, and enable users to infringe, intellectual property rights. This article considers the adequacy of the legislative basis for these orders.