Cases

Attorney General v Random House Group Ltd

Facts

The Applicant applied for an injunction to restrain the further sale of a book entitled “The Terrorist Hunters” until verdicts were delivered in the re-trial of eight men accused of conspiracy to murder who were arrested in a police investigation called “Operation Overt”. The book had been sent to booksellers for sale on 25 June, just days before the evidence in the trial closed on 29 June 2009. It was estimated that the summing up by the Trial Judge would not commence until 13 July and the jury were expected to retire to consider their verdict during the week commencing 27 July. The five pages of the book which gave rise to the application described events that occurred as part of Operation Overt, although none of the accused were identified.

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