They're expensive, exhausting and they stress you out. Thus Jeremy Clarkson abandons a superinjunction that he says brought him nothing but grief. And reason number one (advanced in an interview with the Mail): "Most importantly, they don't work. You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind it is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the internet. It's pointless."

Which is where last week's European court of justice victory by the actor Olivier Martinez against the Sunday Mirror comes in. So now you can sue in France for something written online in the UK. So take the next logical step – on injunctions, libel, privacy, and the whole digital extravaganza. What's the point of one law in one country any longer? Where's the will to have one umbrella of media law to stop it raining writs all over the world?