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Attorney General v Jonathan Cape Ltd

[1976] QB 752; [1975] 3 All ER 484; [1975] 3 WLR 606 (QBD)

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtQueen's Bench Division (High Court of England and Wales)

Year1975

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Collective Cabinet responsibility is a political convention not enforceable as law, but the courts may restrain publication of genuinely confidential Cabinet deliberations where the public interest requires and the confidence has not lapsed with time.

Area of Law

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