Application for an injunction to restrain the BBC from broadcasting a programme about covert human intelligence sources. One factual issue in the application was whether briefings that had been given by the Government to the newspapers had been given with or without authority from the relevant department. The Defendants filed a witness statement of a departmental lawyer stating what her instructions were about the issue of authorisation but failing to identify the source of her information. Chamberlain J held that the witness statement was inadequate to negative the inference that the briefings had been given by a Government source.
Judges:
Mr Justice Chamberlain
Citations:
[2022] EWHC 380 (QB)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Gardner and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Others Admn 27-Apr-2022
Patient transfer policy was unlawful
The claimants had relatives who died in care homes early in the COVID-19 pandemic. They said that the policy of moving patients from hospitals to care homes without testing had contributed to the deaths, and many others, and had been unlawful. The . .
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Media, Human Rights
Updated: 23 May 2022; Ref: scu.674521
