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South East Water Ltd v Water Services Regulation Authority

[2026] EWHC 479 (Admin)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtHigh Court of England and Wales, King's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Chamberlain J)
Year2026
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

A public authority will only in exceptional circumstances be restrained by interim injunction from publishing information it is obliged or empowered to publish, and an applicant seeking to prevent a regulator publishing a proposed enforcement decision must meet that heightened threshold, showing harm that is sufficiently grave or irreparable to outweigh the public interest in publication.

Area of Law

commercial

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