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A public interest immunity certificate allowed the prosecution to apply to the judge for a ruling that disclosure of certain information would be harmful to the public interest and should not be made public. [1] R v Hicks, Nute and Rowe [2002]. A public interest immunity certificate was presented to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service ...
A Public Interest Immunity (PII) certificate was sought by the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith; it was reported by The Times on 13 December 2007 that the grounds were 'on the basis of protecting national security interests and to protect the identity of informants'. On 14 January 2008, the trial judge granted this unprecedented 'gagging order' and ...
Source: " 'Law and' the OLC's Article II Immunity Memos (Stanford Law & Policy Review), pp. 6–8. Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Corrinne Tarver; Comment: This is a split from Template:Did you know nominations/Arrest of Ulysses S. Grant after a rescope and rewrite. It met newness criteria at the time of the original nomination ...
Patrick Hill and the families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings remain united in their efforts to overturn the 75-year public interest immunity order imposed in 1994, and have publicly demanded the British Government order the release of all government, police, and crown papers related to the case. [170]
Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.
The trial did not go well for the government. The trial judge overturned the government's use of public interest immunity certificates intended to suppress some critical evidence (purportedly on grounds of national security). The court required the government to hand over these materials to the defence.
Immunity passes could allow people who have had the virus to return to normal life. Here's how they work, and why we might worry.
[Note 3] Nevertheless, the court ordered that it was 'essential in the public interest' for the information to be disclosed. [16] Speaking generally, the court concluded by saying it is of the 'utmost importance' that anonymity assurances be honoured; and as such be ordinarily protected by public interest immunity.