Cases

Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd and others

Held

Although it was desirable that there should be consultation between a newspaper and the intelligence services before publication of information that might include matters capable of damaging the national interest, it was not right having regard to article 10 ECHR and s 12 HRA, to subject the defendant to a fetter on its right to freedom of expression beyond that which applied to other publishers who had not given the undertaking.

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