I AM not in favour of the way extremely rich people can keep certain things private by means of taking out a super-injunction.

The law as regards privacy in Britain is farcical and needs looking at, but the law is the law, and if we do not like it, we must instruct our MPs to change the law.

I am against the sort of action adopted by Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, whereby he used Parliamentary privilege to name footballer Ryan Giggs as the celebrity in an alleged affair.

The flouting of the law by this method should only be used in exceptional cases, when it most certainly is in the public interest to know.

Celebrity affairs and sex stories are tittle-tattle, but if a large international company or corporation was known by an MP to be dumping large quantities of toxic waste, involved in bribery or the trafficking of humans for exploitation and tax evasion, than that would be a justifiable reason for exposing that guilt through Parliamentary privilege. Normally, breaking the law is a crime.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.