Public Interest Privilege in UK Law
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Balancing Public Interest and a Fair Trial in Police Informer Privilege: A Critical Australian Perspective
The name of a police informer is not to be revealed in court unless certain conditions are met. What this article shows is that the historical basis for this rule of evidence, ‘the informer rule’, ...
- “Crown Privilege”, Scrutiny of the Administration and the “Public Interest”—A Comment on Sankey v. Whitlam1
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Private Information in Public Hands: Confidentiality, Court Disclosure and the Public Interest
Individuals and organisations are frequently required to provide public agencies with information about their affairs which they would not wish disseminated to others. Income tax returns represent ...... ... The agency may resist disclosure on the basis of a st~tutory secrecy provision an,d/or a claim to Cro'wn privilege. The court is thus required to resolve a conflict between competing public interests: the public interest in the proper administration ... ...
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Public Interest Immunity and Disclosure of Unused Materials in Criminal Proceedings
This paper focuses on public interest immunity (PII) and disclosure of unused material in the context of criminal proceedings. PII used to be referred to as Crown privilege and was hardly ever rais...... ... REFERENCES (1) Duncan v Cammell, Laird & Co.Ltd[1942] AC 624, which held that a court could never question a claim to Crown privilege by the Crown if the claim was made in proper form; see also R v Lewes Justices, ex p Secretary of State for the Home Department [1973] AC 388, 400 ... ...
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Protecting the reputation of defamation law: How defamation law can remain justified in an age of globalized communications, science, human rights and democratic values
The 59,511 signature strong petition for libel reform clearly demonstrates the impetus for reform of Anglo-Welsh defamation law. This dissertation identifies the increased importance of freedom of ...... ... to be true should replace the Reynolds privilege. It is also considered a single publication rule ... ‘honest opinion’ and should require a public interest element. It is concluded that the ... ...
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Turning Fortifications into Constitutional Bypasses: Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club INC V Commissioner of Police
... ... of the so-called Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (' Kable ') 3 principle (or ... evidence from a party in the public interest in other jurisdictions 12 with human rights ... would permit the application of the privilege of public interest immunity. 32 That privilege, ... ...
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Organizational barriers to transparency
Transparency in the activities of government and public service agencies has become a democratic sine qua non, legislated by access to information laws in many countries. While these laws have incr...... ... in the activities of government and public service agencies has become a democratic sine ... , although no public or private interest of any importance justifies such behaviour ... of equilibrium between administrative privilege and transparency. Points for practitioners This ... ...
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Couldn’t Tell You Even If I Wanted To? Anonymity of Journalists’ Sources, Voluntary Disclosure and Abuse of Process
In October 2016, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Norman, an appeal against conviction for misconduct in public office on the basis of information sold to a newspaper by a serving prison...... ... against conviction for misconduct in public office on the basis of information sold to a ... The particular interest in the appeal, however, comes from its wider ... the existing law on journalistic privilege and highlights the gap in the precedents that ... ...
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Governing the social, material, textual, and advancing professional learning of doctoral candidates in the contemporary university
Doctoral education is increasingly of interest to higher education researchers and policy-makers as the qualification’s diversity, governance, reach and policy outcomes come under growing scrutiny....... ... Doctoral education is increasingly of interest to higher education researchers and policy- ... Data indicate that current arrangements privilege sociomaterial (disciplinary) learning. Textual ... edu.au; Telephone: +61414799899 Teaching Public Administration 2018, Vol. 36(1) 14–33 ª The ... ...
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Subject Index
... ... 236–237 attorney–client privilege waiverby companies ... 9, 22 public perceptions ... 205–206 public interest privilege againstself-incrimination and ... ...
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