The WLR Daily case summaries
[2022] WLR(D) 167
Queen’s Bench Division
Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corporation
[2022] EWHC 826 (QB)
2022 Mar 1, 2; April 7
Chamberlain J
Confidential information— Disclosure— Public interest— Broadcaster seeking to publish programme containing allegations of coercive and violent behaviour by individual claiming to be a covert human intelligence source with purported links to security services— Application for interim injunction to restrain publication— Whether injunction to be granted on basis publication would endangered the individual and cause material damage to national security— Whether injunction required to protect individual’s Convention rights—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 12, Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 3