Gordon Ramsay’s father-in- law’s injunction lifted

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law Chris Hutcheson – formerly head of the celebrity chef's business empire - was last night revealed as the holder of an injunction preventing newspapers from publishing details of his private life.

Hutcheson, the latest character in the injunctions saga to lose his anonymity, sought the privacy order last year after a very public falling out with his son-in-law over conduct which a court heard yesterday was "morally blameworthy" – but not criminal.

The court of appeal yesterday said details of Hutcheson's conduct must remain secret at least until later today, when it will rule on what can be made public. But it decided Hutcheson could, after all, be identified as the holder of an injunction.

Hutcheson's QC, Hugh Tomlinson, yesterday told the court that his client was "not a public figure, not a premiership footballer" and that the details he wanted to keep secret were "purely a private matter of concern only to him and a small number of other individuals".

But Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, upheld the decision last year by Mr Justice Eady not to grant an interim privacy injunction. However, he warned newspapers not to publish details of what Hutcheson had actually done, unless it came "from an independent source".

Most media today content themselves with naming Hutcheson, with only the Sun and Daily Mail feeling confident enough to publish the full details of Hutcheson's private life.

Many newspapers feel the injunctions situation is degenerating into farce. On Monday, an MP used the cover of parliamentary privilege to name Ryan Giggs as the footballer implicated in an affair with former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas.

David Cameron has announced the setting up of a cross-party committee to review privacy injunctions and Britain's most senior judge, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has agreed to appear before it to give evidence. ·