Index card Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corpn

Attorney General v British Broadcasting Corpn

Hearings

England & Wales

07 Apr 2022 [2022] EWHC 826 (QB); [2022] 4 WLR 74; [2022] WLR(D) 167, QBD (Chamberlain J)

Subject Matter

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION — Disclosure — Public interest — Broadcaster seeking to publish programme containing allegations of coercive and violent behaviour by individual claiming to be 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 endanger 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

[2022] EWHC 826 (QB); [2022] 4 WLR 74; [2022] WLR(D) 167, QBD

Commentary

RPC Perspectives
Interim injunctions and competing public interests (Attorney General v BBC) Case comment

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