| 单词 | Newspaper rule |
| 释义 | 報刊規則 The principle that a media defendant will not be compelled in a defamation action (either at the interlocutory stage or at the trial) to disclose its sources of information unless it is necessary to do justice between the parties: British Steel Corp v Granda Television Ltd [1981] AC 1096. It applied not only to newspapers but to the news media. The overriding jurisdiction for the rule was the public interests in the free flow of information: British Steel Corp v Granada Television Ltd, supra. For example, the court may not order the publisher of a magazine sued for libel to disclose the author and editors of the allegedly libellous article concerned: Sham John v Eastweek Publisher Ltd [1994] 1 HKC 264 (CA). See also Defamation. 在誹謗訴訟中（不論是非正審或是審訊期間），除非是在各方之間秉行公正而有需要，否則媒體被告人不會被強制披露消息來源的一項原則：British Steel Corp v Granda Television Ltd [1981] AC 1096。不單止報刊，此原則亦適用於新聞媒體。此原則之首要司法權為資訊能自由流通的公眾利益：British Steel Corp v Granada Television Ltd, 見上文。舉例，法庭不可命令某就永久形式誹謗罪而被起訴的雜誌出版人，披露被指稱為有誹謗性文字的文章其有關的作者及編輯：Sham John v Eastweek Publisher Ltd [1994] 1 HKC 264 (上訴法庭)。另見 Defamation。 |
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