SEP 08, '87 14:32 HERBERT SMITH HK
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confidentiality.
That equally
must apply to anyone, who knowingly aids and abets him in his unauthorised
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disclosure
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The Vice-Chancellor and the
Court of Appeal had taken a similar view(11),
And now adopting and adapting some factors from the speech of Lord Brandon, with whom Lord Templeman agreed (12),
The action brought by the Attorney General in Hong Kong has as its
object the protection of two
important public interests namely the preservation of confidence and of fiduciary obligations generally and the maintenance so far as possible of the secrecy of the British Security Service in particular.
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The injunction in issue is
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interlocutory, that is to say a temporary injunction having effect until the trial of the action only.
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4. The Attorney General's case for
obtaining after trial a final
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(10) At p.42
(11) Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd
and The Observer Ltd & OTH
July 1987
"Times" 23rd and 25th
(12) pp. 198 and 199 of the transcript
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