The ruling on the Government's temporary injunction against the Royal Gazette will be made at 2:30PM on Friday.
This is an interesting one from the sounds of it, which is a little different than the previous failed injunction to prevent disclosure of the leaked BHC documents.
This is a leaked Cabinet memo...oops, did I just say that? Well, everyone knows that at this point anyway.
So there's some issues around The Official Secrets Act, and as it doesn't involve allegations of criminality or corruption as with the BHC, there's a more tenuous balance between the public right to know and confidentiality in a legal sense I believe.
But at this point Government may want this thing released anyway because the rumours may be getting worse than the truth.
While the rumour mill is rampant it's also apparently pretty close. As the Gazette reported this story out I think they deserve the right to break it and sell a few papers and get a few hits on their site if they successfully overturn the temporary injunction. Otherwise I suspect all bets are off.
Regardless, the story is getting out whether the injunction against the Gazette... and it's only against the Gazette...is upheld or not.
The genie is out of the bottle.
