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  • Ronan Ó Fathaigh

Imposing Costs on Newspaper in Successful Source-Protection Case Did Not Violate Article 10

November 17, 2014

By Ronan Ó Fathaigh In the summer of 2009, the Irish supreme court issued a landmark opinion, overturning an order issued against a newspaper to answer questions about a leaked document it had received from an anonymous source. However, four months later, the same supreme court ruled that the newspaper was required to pay the […]