Article 10

Question 1

Goodwin v UK (1996)

Answer 1

A trainee journalist is ordered to disclose a source for information he has got about a company, apparently from a confidential document

Held that s10 CCA 1981 is adequately framed to be prescribed by law

But the order to disclose the source was not necessary, because there was already an injunction, so identifying the source only served the purposes of the company’s own internal desire to identify the leaker