Spycatcher Case Study

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In addition, the information must be outside the public domain, or satisfactorily unapproachable to the public (Bunn 2016). The Spycatcher case, Attorney-General (UK) v Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Lty (1987) 75 ALR 353 would represent this point. The issue of this case was the information contained in the book was confidential and specifically whether the information outside of the public domain. The case is about Wright, a former member of the British Secret service known as M15, retired and ling in Tasmania who later decided to publish a book about his mission and experience as a M15. However the UK government wished to prevent publication of the book as they believe that the information in the book considered confidential information.

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