A CLASH OF TWO IMPERATIVES:THE RIGHT TO KNOW VERSUS THE NEED TO KEEP SECRET IN THE CONTEXT OF CRIMINAL LAW AND NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS

A CLASH OF TWO IMPERATIVES:THE RIGHT TO KNOW VERSUS THE NEED TO KEEP SECRET IN THE CONTEXT OF CRIMINAL LAW AND NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS

More than ever before, two imperatives, ‘the right to know’ and ‘the need to keep secret’, find themselves in a contest for a position of primacy in the contemporary legal system. The need to keep secret is antipathetic to the right to know. The Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms has entr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Philip
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2012
Subjects:
PII
Informants
undertakings
privilege
Disclosure
national secuirty
public interest immunity
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7120

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http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7120

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