Spies, Traitors and Good Faith

Published date01 February 1997
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/eb025801
Date01 February 1997
Pages342-345
AuthorEugene T.S. Fung
Subject MatterAccounting & finance
Journal of Financial Crime Vol. 4 No. 4 Restitution
RESTITUTION
Spies,
Traitors and Good Faith
Eugene T. S. Fung
Back in 1988, Lord Brightman said in his
Spycatcher
judgment that:
'the Crown is bound to face the uncomfortable
fact that a disloyal intelligence officer is free to
emigrate to a safe haven overseas, and from
there to give world-wide publicity, in pursuit of
money or activated by malice, to the closest
secrets of the organisation which he once pur-
ported to serve. After that has been done,
secrecy is lost and the Crown is inevitably left
with the highly unsatisfactory and totally inade-
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