The Weekly Law Reports
[1984] 2 WLR 268
[COURT OF APPEAL]
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE AND ANOTHER V. GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS LTD.
[1983 D. No. 5298]
1983 Dec. 15;
16
Sir John Donaldson M.R., Griffiths and Slade L.JJ.
Contempt of Court
— Sources of information
— Disclosure
— Secret Crown document
— Copy sent to newspaper
— Possibility of identification of sender from markings on copy
— Newspaper seeking to protect source of information
— Whether Crown entitled to immediate return of copy
— Whether return of document in “interests of justice or national security”
—
Contempt of Court Act 1981 (c. 49), s. 10.
Copyright
— Crown
— Secret document
— Copy of document sent to newspaper
— Whether Crown to be treated as owner of copy document
—
Copyright Act 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2, c. 74), s. 18(1)