Cases

Sanoma Uitgevers BV v Netherlands

Comment

The Grand Chamber re-emphasised the need for procedural safeguards before a “source disclosure order” is made. The court stressed that the protection of journalistic sources was a principle of such importance that procedural safeguards regulating seizures of source material by authorities must be commensurate. The decision underlines the warnings given in the dissenting judgments in the 2009 decision that unregulated seizures of journalistic source material by police was a matter of grave disquiet.

Areas of work

Foreign Jurisdictions
Human Rights

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