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—a minister' s certificate to the effect that disclosure would be contrary to the public interest was conclusive.

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—held that a court could never question a claim to Crown privilege by the Crown if the claim was made in proper form; see also R

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Privilege 91 The basis for the claim In England, the courts at one time took the view that a claim of public interest immunity by a Minister was conclusive

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"The essential matter is that the decision to object should be taken by the minister who is the political head of the department, and that he should have seen and considered the contents of the documents and himself have formed the view that on grounds of public interest they ought not to be produced...."

- in United States v. Reynolds, 1953 and 16 similar citations

Although this privilege can be traced back to Aaron Burr' s trial for treason, its modern use stems from British precedent established during World War II.

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—he upheld an objection taken by the Admiralty to the production of documents which included the contract for the hull and machinery of a submarine and a large number of plans and specifications which related to various parts of the vessel.

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Lord Simon pointed out that what was then known as 'Crown privilege', now public interest immunity (PII), was not properly a branch of the law of privilege at all.

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—entirely deferential to the executive government' s claims of PII in the national security context, accepting ministerial certificates as conclusive evidence that it would be contrary to the public interest to reveal certain national security-related information

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The current approach can be discarded, provided that one is willing to accept the consequence, which would probably be a return to the pre Conway case law, whereby the courts accepted executive determination of the public interest in the manner exemplified by Duncan

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—the Court concluded that a hearing at which a judge had private communications with one party violates what the Court stated was “a first principle of justice that the judge should have no dealings on the matter in hand with one litigant save in the presence of and to the equal knowledge of the other

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