Prior Restraint of Publication of Information in UK Law

  • Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Others (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Octubre 1988
    ... ... Greengrass, and it was accepted for publication by Heinemann Publishers Pty. Ltd., the Australian ... secrets and confidential political information. In the meantime Spycatcher had on 14 July 1987 ... Restraint of publication was claimed on the ground of ... common ground that neither the defence of prior publication nor the so called "iniquity" defence ... ...
  • Cream Holdings Ltd and Others v Banerjee and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 Febrero 2003
    ... ... and important appeal concerning the prior restraint of media publications. It raises in ... ] is to be granted so as to restrain publication before trial unless the court is satisfied that ... or using certain confidential information as defined in a confidential schedule save to ... ...
  • Campbell v MGN Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Octubre 2002
    ... ... actions in which she complains of publication of matters about her private life. The defendants ... with the media she volunteered information about some aspects of her private life and ... is aimed at limiting a disproportionate restraint on freedom of expression by publication such as ... provisions of the Act relate to activities prior to the moment when that information is ... ...
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Febrero 1972
    ... ... consolidated actions for libel on the publication of a book. The first action was in respect of the ... was wrong in the light of the information then available, and that the absence of the ... to the law of exemplary damages which, prior to Rookes v. Barnard , had not, so far as I am ... seeing that the weapon is used with restraint. It may even be that the House may find it ... ...
  • Cream Holdings Ltd and Others v Banerjee and another
    • House of Lords
    • 14 Octubre 2004
    ... ... ] is to be granted so as to restrain publication before trial unless the court is satisfied that ... these to the Echo with additional information. She received no payments for this. On 13 and 14 ... Restraint of publication would delay the Echo's story but ... in favour of making an order involving prior restraint. Simon Brown LJ, however, expressed ... ...
  • Douglas v Hello! Ltd (No 1)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Diciembre 2000
    ... ... Since it decided to proceed with the publication of Issue 639 of its magazine after we discharged ... that the photographs contained information possessing the necessary quality of confidence ... printers would normally be 4pm on a Tuesday prior to OK! going on sale on a Friday. If OK! sent a ... the received test (or tests) for prior restraint, qualifies them by requiring a probability of ... ...
  • JIH v News Group Newspapers Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 Enero 2011
    ... ... asked to make orders preventing the publication of private information, concerning, for instance, ... published, without JIH having received any prior notice, suggesting that he had had a sexual ... NGN to the contrary with commendable restraint, bearing in mind, on the one hand, that his ... ...
  • Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Junio 2013
    ... ... due diligence so as to obtain information about the designated person and those of its ... , the question whether there is a duty of prior consultation cannot be answered in wholly general ... the national level, where the degree of restraint practised by courts in applying the principle of ... case of paragraph 16 which deals with publication, indicates that the direction will have already ... ...
  • Burke v Central Independent Television Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 Febrero 1994
    ... ... laid down guidelines relating to the publication of information about minors who are wards of ... of the court without the court's prior leave." ... 31 Later he ... the order sought, making clear that the restraint applied "whether or not the account identifies ... ...
  • Hubbard v Vosper
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Noviembre 1971
    ... ... an interim injunction to restrain the publication of the book. Later on Mr. Lafayette Ronald ... If they are used to convey the same information as the author, for a rival purpose, that may be ... other times it is best not to impose a restraint upon the defendant but leave him free to go ... case in which dealings between the parties prior to the contract in question cannot be relied upon ... ...
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