In the inquest into the death of the Mi6 employee Gareth Williams, counsel instructed by the press managed to get the coroner to direct that any "exhibit or court document be disclosed to the media".
He was using the legal term to describe the process by which confidential documents are disclosed.
The documents were disclosed by the Justice Department on May 11, five days before Mr. McVeigh was to be executed.
WASHINGTON -- As a trove of confidential State Department documents was disclosed Sunday, officials said they had already taken several steps to prevent a recurrence of such an extensive leak.
Not long after these documents were disclosed in court, government lawyers settled the damages claim and, in doing so, halted the release of any further papers.
The documents were disclosed during a hearing in October 2010 to decide if an affidavit to obtain a search warrant, or in this case a wiretap, relied on false statements as Mr. Rajaratnam had claimed.
Timothy H. Gilbert, a lawyer for Apotex, said Wednesday that the company planned to ask again that the documents be disclosed in two other courts where it had filed lawsuits against Glaxo.
During the proceedings that former Guantánamo detainees brought against the government, documents were disclosed that contained proof of complicity in the unlawful rendition from Zambia in early 2002 of Martin Mubanga.
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, apparently misled high court judges by claiming that the US would stop sharing intelligence with Britain if documents were disclosed showing MI5's complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed.
While Begg and his lawyers were not told anything about the contents of the previously secret material that secured his release, it is now clear that police and prosecution lawyers involved with the case are angry that the documents were disclosed to them after Begg had spent several months in prison on remand.
