Official Secrets in UK Law

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Books & Journal Articles
  • Official Secrets and Official Information
    • No. 1-5, January 1980
    • Teaching Public Administration
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  • Secrecy Provisions in Commonwealth Legislation
    • No. 19-1, March 1990
    • Federal Law Review
    • 0000
    “The Official Secrets Act stiffens the spine of the secretive bureaucrat and softens the vertebrae of the press”1
    ... ... PROVISIONS IN COMMONWEALTH LEGISLATIONJOHNMcGINNESs·"The Official Secrets Act stiffens the spineofthe secretivebureaucrat and softens the ... ...
  • THE CAMPAIGN FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: A PARTICIPATORY CHALLENGE TO ELITIST BRITISH GOVERNMENT
    • No. 68-4, December 1990
    • Public Administration
    The proponents of freedom of information have, since the 1970s, sponsored successive Private Members bills seeking to liberalize Section Two of the Official Secrets Act. Until recently they have ha...
    ... ... Members bills seeking to liberalize Section Two of the Official Secrets Act. Until recently they have had no success. Indeed, ... ...
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 70-1, March 1992
    • Public Administration
    DEMOCRACY, BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Patrick Dunleavy. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM COMES OF AGE Gerald E. Caiden. EDINBURGH ESSAYS IN PUBLIC LAW W. Fie, C. Himsworth and N. Walker (eds.) CRITICISM AN...
    ... ... Kay London Business School ESPIONAGE AND SECRECY: THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS 1911-1989 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Rosamund M. Thomas ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • “Official Secrets” opens today. Good reviews for Hollywood take on UK whistleblower
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    While working as a translator for the a British spy agency, Katherine Gun leaked a government memo to the press. In doing so, she violated the country’s Official Secrets Act. The memo detailed a re...
  • British Appellate Court Lifts Gag Order In Official Secrets Act Trial
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    An appellate court has lifted a gag order, imposed by a lower court, which prevented the British press from printing information about a meeting between then Prime Minister Tony Blair and President...
  • Blair Government Threatens Newspapers After Memo Leaked
    • LexBlog United Kingdom
    The Blair government has threatened the Daily Mirror and other British newspapers with sanctions under the Official Secrets Act and the Contempt of Court Act after the Mirror quoted from a memo lea...
    ... ... Mirror and other British newspapers with sanctions under the Official Secrets Act and the Contempt of Court Act after the Mirror quoted from a ... ...
  • Secrets and Spies: The UK's Proposal for Foreign Agent Registration
    • JD Supra United Kingdom
    On July 21, 2020, the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament published the Russia Report (the Report). The Report found that the UK was one of Russia’s “top Western intelligence targets”...
    ... ... It brought attention to the Law Commission’s 2017 consultation, in relation to updating the Official Secrets Acts1, and the possibility of creating a new Espionage Act. The committee recommended the introduction of a new Espionage Act that would ... ...
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Forms
  • Apply to extend a representation order
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Crown Court forms including the form to extend a representation order.
    ... ... Treason; ... An offence under the Official Secrets Acts; ... Soliciting, inciting, encouraging or assisting, ... ...
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