Attorney-General v Observer Ltd

Attorney General v Observer Ltd
CourtHouse of Lords
Full case name Attorney General v Observer Ltd; Attorney General v Times Newspapers Ltd (No.2); Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Decided13 October 1988
TranscriptFull text of the judgment

Attorney General v Observer Ltd [1990] is an English tort law case on breach of confidentiality. It also raised questions of the interests of public policy and freedom of expression, under the European Convention on Human Rights, because it involved a spy's publication of secret information.