Nearly two years ago, I was called into the Ministry of Defence and served with an unprecedented superinjunction – a legal order that stopped me, or anyone else, from revealing the details of a catastrophic data leak that had taken place in the heart of government.
That moment threw me into an 18-month secret legal battle at the High Court as media organisations sought to hold the government to account for how the leak had happened – and what was being done to rectify that calamitous mistake.
