The court declined to recognise any right of the media to protect their sources from disclosure of identity where disclosure was in the public interest.
Lord Parker CJ said: ‘it . . would remain open to this court to say in the special circumstances of any particular case that public policy did demand that the journalist should be immune’.
Judges:
Lord Parker CJ
Citations:
[1963] 1 All ER 420, [1963] 1 QB 773
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – British Steel Corporation v Granada Television Ltd HL 7-May-1980
The defendant had broadcast a TV programme using material confidential to the plaintiff, who now sought disclosure of the identity of the presumed thief.
Held: (Lord Salmon dissenting) The courts have never recognised a public interest right . .
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Media, Litigation Practice
Updated: 25 November 2022; Ref: scu.193354