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Litigating State Secrets: A Comparative Study of National Security Privilege in Canadian, US and English Civil Cases.

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  • Title: Litigating State Secrets: A Comparative Study of National Security Privilege in Canadian, US and English Civil Cases.
  • Author : Ottawa Law Review
  • Release Date : January 22, 2010
  • Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 358 KB

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One of the main obstacles in criminal and civil proceedings involving intelligence and executive officials is the objection to disclosure of information and evidence on the basis of national security privilege. Known as the "state secrets privilege" in the United States and "public interest immunity" in England, this evidentiary rule has been invoked successfully in an increasing number of cases in the US and England. Indeed, the privilege has been identified as one of the most serious obstacles to effective human rights remedies. In this essay, I discuss the use of national security privilege in civil litigation in the three jurisdictions, focusing specifically on the role the privilege has played in blocking claims by purported torture survivors and other victims of anti-terrorism activities in the US and England. I also evaluate the potential impact of the privilege on a torture survivor's civil claim, when such a case ultimately goes to trial in Canada. My conclusion, based-on the approach courts have taken to the public interest balancing exercise, is that it will be very difficult for private litigants to obtain disclosure of information over which a claim of privilege has been made. L'un des principaux obstacles dans les pour-suites civiles et criminelles impliquant des representants des services du renseignement est le refus de communiquer de l'information et des elements de preuve fondus sur le privilege relatif a la securite nationale. Connue sous le nom de privilege des secrets d'Etat (state secrets privilege) aux Etats-Unis et d'exception d'interet public en Angleterre, cette regle de preuve a ete invoquee avec succes dans un nombre croissant de causes aux E.-U. comme en Angleterre., En fait, ce privilege est considere comme l'un des plus sericux obstacles a l'efficacite des recours intentes en matiere de droits de la personne. Dans cet essai, je discute du recours au privilege relatif a la securite nationale dans le cadre de poursuites civiles dans trois differents ressorts, en concentrant mon analyse sur le role que ce privilege a joue dans la stagnation des poursuites intentees par des victimes d'actes de torture presumees et d'autres victimes d'activites antiterroristes aux E.-U. et en Angleterre. J evalue les consequences eventuelles du privilege sur la poursuite civile intentee par une victime de torture, lorsque cette cause se retrouve finalement devant un tribunal au Canada. J'en conclus, en me fondant sur l'approche que les tribunaux judiciaires ont adoptee lorsqu'il s'agit de concilier de telles revendications avec l'interet public, que des plaideurs prives auraient beaucoup de difficulte & obtenir que des renseignements vises par la revendication d'un tel privilege leur soient communiques.


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