Official Secrets Act
- Title
- Official Secrets Act
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- 8 Apr 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:03:44
- Description
- Tim Crook reports on the Official Secrets Act, the way it is used, and how it has been kept on the statute books by successive governments despite judges’ recommendations. Includes comment on the trial of Jonathan Aitken and of the Sunday Telegraph. Report comes prior to the Sarah Tisdall case tomorrow (FCO clerical officer accused of passing documents on nuclear missiles to a newspaper).
- Contributors
- Tim Crook
- Keywords
- Legislation; Newspapers; Right to information; Civil servants; Freedom of the press; Trials; Law reform; Documents; Official Secrets Act; Jonathan Aitken; Sunday Telegraph; Royal commissions; Sarah Tisdall
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