(Commission) The applicant sold information about people’s assets to third parties. He complained that the refusal of the Spanish courts to allow him access to the courts’ archives in order to obtain such information violated his rights under article 10.
Held: The application was inadmissible. The Commission reiterated that article 10 ‘is intended basically to prohibit a Government from restricting a person from receiving information that others may wish or may be willing to impart to him’. It also observed that ‘the sale of commercial information, which was the applicant company’s object, was not concerned with informing public opinion, which is the purpose of the provision in question’.
Citations:
32849/96, [1997] ECHR 196
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Cited – Guardian News and Media Ltd, Regina (on The Application of) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court CA 3-Apr-2012
The newspaper applied for leave to access documents referred to but not released during the course of extradition proceedings in open court.
Held: The application was to be allowed. Though extradition proceedings were not governed by the Civil . .
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Updated: 26 July 2022; Ref: scu.346573