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Branzburg Vs. Hayes

Court : US Supreme Court

..... admonished that refusal to provide a first amendment reporter's privilege will undermine the freedom of the press to ..... caldwell was required to appear before the grand jury at all, rather than the scope of permissible interrogation, the court first determined that the first amendment provided a qualified testimonial privilege to newsmen; in its view, requiring a reporter like caldwell to testify would deter his informants from communicating with him in the future and would cause him to censor his writings in an effort to avoid being subpoenaed. ..... trial court judge [ footnote 3 ] ordered petitioner to answer these questions and rejected his contention that the kentucky reporters' privilege statute, ky.rev.stat. ..... jury's extraordinarily broad investigative powers and the weak standards of relevance and materiality that apply during such inquiries, reporters, if they have no testimonial privilege, will be called to give information about informants who have neither committed crimes nor have information about crime. ..... 665 certiorari to the court of appeals of kentucky syllabus the first amendment does not relieve a newspaper reporter of the obligation that all citizens have to respond to a grand jury subpoena and answer questions relevant to a criminal investigation, and therefore the amendment does not afford him a constitutional testimonial privilege for an agreement he makes to conceal facts relevant to a grand jury's investigation of a crime or to conceal the criminal conduct of .....

The State of Punjab Vs. Sodhi Sukhdev Singh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC493; [1961]2SCR371

..... (i) the judges are not well qualified to appreciate the highly technical matters which may arise with regard to some kinds of state secrets; (ii) if a judge is allowed to decide on evidence the question of privilege, it may prejudice a fair trial; and (iii) it is a first principle of justice that the judge should have no dealings on the matter in hand with on litigant save in the presence ..... of the said minutes would tend directly to disclose that which is not permitted to be disclosed; and so, independently of the character of the court the production of the report was privileged on the broad rule of public policy and convenience that matters like those covered by the report are secret in their nature and involve delicate enquiry and the names of persons who ought to stand protected. 8. ..... prisoner who was a mental case asked for certain reports and privilege was claimed, the privilege was upheld but it was said that although it was essential that government department should be entitled to claim privilege against disclosure of documents on the ground of public interest the ambit of privileges should be carefully scrutinized and each document should be ..... privilege in regard to the three items described as 'original orders' passed by the pepsu government, but regret my inability to agree with them in regard to the report ..... report submitted by the court of enquiry should be produced and this request was resisted by the defendant on the ground that the document in question was a privileged .....

Shepherd Vs. the Trustees of the Port of Bombay

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1877)ILR1Bom477

..... , or at least occasional, occurrence as writing a report of the conduct of an officer, the necessity of the existence of an actual sense of duty in making such report should be insisted on, in order that the report be privileged.10. ..... 262, already cited, the employment of a printer by the corporation, which was defendant, to print a report, (the statements in which were complained of by the plaintiff in that case), for distribution among the shareholders of the corporation, was held not to be a circumstance which prevented the publication from being privileged, and the employment of a printer, an entire stranger, so far as appears, to the corporation, seems to me to be a stronger case than where a document is ..... opinion, that though the circulation of a report and evidence to the shareholders of a corporation, containing statements in themselves defamatory of an officer of the corporation, may be privileged, yet that the preservation of the report and evidence in a book, for distribution among the persons belonging to the corporation, was not protected by privilege; or, as mr. ..... (if it was such) of the resolutions to the office clerks was also the act of the trustees, yet i am of opinion, that as the sending of the resolutions to the plaintiff himself was a privileged communication, the incidental but necessary co-operation of the secretary in making a draft of the letters in question, and of the office clerks in fair-copying the secretary's draft letters, was covered by the same .....

R.K. Karanjia and ors. Vs. Sewak Ram Sobani

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : 1979CriLJ1494

..... judge, the reception of the said minutes would tend directly to disclose that which is not permitted to be disclosed and so independently of the character of the court the production of the report was privileged on the broad rule of public policy and convenience that matters like those covered by the report are secret in their nature and involve delicate enquiry and the names of person who ought to stand protected. 9. ..... the application and directed that before proceeding any further the following documents should be produced in court:(a) the enquiry report dated 7-10-1976 submitted by shri sharma to the government consisting of his findings regarding the illegal criminal intimacy between ..... and give information to a special enquiry agency set up by it promises secrecy as to the identity of persons as well as the information, the records of the agency that contain those statements and the report on that basis must be taken as relating to the affairs of the state, the disclosure of which would be injurious to state policy. ..... naval officer for any defamatory statement in a report made by him in the course of duty to his superior officer, or against any officer of state for any defamatory statement contained in an official report made by him to the head of his department, even though such statement be published maliciously and without reasonable or probable cause.para 414: the reason for the privilege. ..... report gets published the english law confers absolute privilege to such a report. .....

Mac Electronics Vs. Dy. Chief Controller of Imports and Exports

Court : Chennai

Reported in : 1991(34)ECC176; 1991(53)ELT199(Mad)

..... besides containing the facts, it had to contain the useful and relevant information from the final report, which in turn contains the comments, opinions and suggestions of not only the investigating officer but also their law ..... 's report to be classified as 'confidential', with a higher security, grading like secret and top secret, depending upon the contents of the report, and privilege should be claimed for its production in court ..... 's report was not a privileged document nor a confidential as a privileged document, under sec ..... clauses 304 to 316 relate to the object of a final report, the form and the contents of the final report, while clauses 317 to 325 relate to the object of the ..... cases against gazetted officers and in other important cases, those comments should be originally prepared by the senior public prosecutor or public prosecutor or assistant public prosecutor and vetted by the senior public prosecutor, final reports contain the opinions and suggestions of the investigating officer. ..... all useful and relevant information from final report, information of a departmental nature which is of interest to dspe division officers only, controversial, points on which different opinions might have been expressed by different officers of the dspe division, spe being required to settle the differences, ..... the investigation, role of his subordinate officers, embodying the legal opinion offered by the law officers of the department and the report not coming within the ambit of sec. .....

Dr. Suresh Chandra Banerji and ors. Vs. Punit Goala

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1951Cal176,55CWN745

..... we are not concerned with the question as the only matter before us is whether or not the report is privileged merely because it was a report of proceedings in a legislative assembly.20. ..... it appears to me quite clear that the fact that the report was a report of proceedings in a legislative assembly affords no privilege or protection, because the report was not one published under the authority of the legislature concerned. 21. ..... walter finds no place in the indian penal code and therefore we must hold that reports of proceedings of a legislature in an indian newspaper, unless such are expressly authorised by the house, are not the subject-matter of privilege and may found a complaint for defamation under section 500 of the code.19. ..... we have to apply the criminal law of the land and unless reports of proceedings in a legislative assembly are given a privilege by indian law then we cannot possibly extend the principle of wason v. ..... but the publication is privileged on the same principle as an accurate report of proceedings in a court of justice is privileged, viz,, that the advantage of publicity to the community at large outweighs any private injury resulting from the publication.16. mr. ..... sudhansu mukherjee that reports of proceedings in a legislature are the subject of a qualified privilege and he relied upon the well-known english decision in wason v. .....

M.S.M. Sharma Vs. Sri Krishna Sinha and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1959SC395; [1959]Supp1SCR806

..... learned advocate for the petitioner contends that this decision establishes that the press had the absolute privilege of publishing a report of the proceedings that take place in parliament, just as it is entitled to publish a faithful and correct report of the proceedings of the courts of justice, though the character of individuals may incidentally suffer and that the publication of such accurate reports is privileged and entails neither criminal nor civil responsibility. ..... in the actual motion the charge was that the speech was published in its entirety, " jyon ka tyon " ; but the motion adopted by the privileges committee, the charge against the editor was that he published a perverted and unfaithful report of the proceeding, and the expunged portions of the speech was also published in derogation of the order of the speaker. ..... sharma, editor and shri awadhesh kumar tiwari, printer and publisher of the " searchlight " be called upon to show cause why appropriate action be not taken against them by reason of the commission of a breach of privilege in respect of the speaker of the bihar legislative assembly and the assembly itself by publishing a perverted and unfaithful report of the proceedings of the assembly relating to the speech of shri maheswar prasad narain sinha, m.l.a. .....

Three Rivers District Council and Others (Respondents) Vs. Governor an ...

Court : House of Lords

..... (para 25) to the opinion expressed by the law reform committee in its 16th report on privilege in civil proceedings (1967) (cmnd 3472), to the effect that the true rationale of legal advice privilege was that it was "a privilege in aid of litigation" and was concerned exclusively with rights and liabilities enforceable in ..... such proceedings, as lord jauncey of tullichettle stated at page 27, "are so far removed from normal actions that litigation privilege has no place in relation to reports obtained by a party thereto which could not have been prepared without the leave of the court to disclose documents already filed or to ..... in the third case, wheeler v le marchant (1881) 17 ch d 675 the defendants sought privilege for reports obtained by their solicitors from estate agents/surveyors in the course of previous administration proceedings unconnected with the instant action brought by the plaintiff for specific ..... [1997] ac 16 lord jauncey of tullichettle described litigation privilege as "essentially a creature of adversarial proceedings" and held that the privilege could not be claimed in order to protect from disclosure a report prepared for use in non-adversarial proceedings (see p.26). ..... the early history of legal privilege is set out in the speech of lord taylor of gosforth cj in r v derby magistrates, ex parte b [1996] ac 487 at 507 et seq, where he traces it back to the earliest instances, to be found in 16th century reports, and follows it through a number of cases in the .....

Hady Hartanto Vs. Yee Kit Hong and Others

Court : Singapore Supreme Court

..... , or (b) if the defendant has an honest belief in the truth of what he published but: (i) his dominant motive for publishing the statement was to injure the plaintiff; or (ii) he uses the occasion (giving rise to the privilege) for an improper purpose, for example, to give vent to his personal spite towards the plaintiff or to obtain some advantage unconnected with the duty or the interest which constitutes the reason for the ..... in hady's reply submissions that he was contending that the defendants had no honest belief in the truth of the disputed words and that the defendants used the privileged occasion for an improper purpose to vent their personal spite against hady and this was unconnected with the duty pursuant to which the announcement was published. ..... meanwhile, yee also sent hady an email on 1 september 2011 to say that the sfca report was privileged as it was prepared for the purpose of seeking legal advice and/or in contemplation of legal ..... since the executive summary is a summary of the sfca report, it may be incongruous for the defendants to claim privilege of the report when the contents of the executive summary were being disclosed. ..... the point as to how the defendants could still rely on privilege for the sfca report when the contents of the executive summary were disclosed was not ..... report was privileged, then one would argue that the executive summary ought to be privileged ..... agreed that hady was not entitled to receive a copy of the sfca report because it was privileged. .....

Kalpana Mehta and Ors. Vs. Union of India and Ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... of anything said or any vote given by him in parliament or any committee thereof, and no person shall be so liable in respect of the publication by or under the authority of either house of parliament of any report, paper, votes or proceedings (3) in other respects, the powers, privileges and immunities of each house of parliament, and of the members and the committees of each house, shall be such as may from time to time be defined by parliament by law, and, until so defined shall ..... . we have noticed above that parliament has already adopted report of 59 privilege committee that for those documents which are public documents within the meaning of indian evidence act, there is no requirement of any permission of speaker of lok sabha for producing such ..... . (iv) parliament has already adopted a report of privilege committee , that for those documents which are public documents within the meaning of indian evidence act, there is no requirement of any permission of speaker of lok sabha for producing ..... of advising and guiding parliament in framing laws and the executive for framing policies, it would be a breach of privilege of parliament to judicially scrutinize and/or review these reports for any purpose whatsoever; ii the broad separation of powers, which is a part of the basic structure of the constitution of india, would prevent courts from subjecting the reports of parliamentary standing committees to scrutiny or judicial review; and iii a conjoint reading of articles 105 and 122 .....