The Commonwealth Crimes Act criminalises essentially any disclosure of government information, regardless of the seriousness, regardless of the intent, and regardless of the public interest.
The section has been criticised by the Australian Law Reform Commission for essentially criminalising any disclosure of information.
And before anyone starts complaining about the hardship this would impose on candidates -- or better yet, the chilling effect it will have on the willingness of rich people to run for office -- let's acknowledge that we essentially require this disclosure anyway.
The most recent was the congressman's postscripting more than $500,000 to his assets disclosure last summer, essentially doubling his net worth to somewhere between $1 million and $2.4 million.
A former member of the S.E.C., Joseph Grundfest, who is now a law professor at Stanford, argued that a victory by the hedge funds "would render compliance" with the disclosure requirements "essentially voluntary".
The disclosures are essentially an attempt to push back against any report Mueller may release in the coming months about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia by painting the investigation as illegitimate, said Bob Deitz, who was National Security Agency general counsel from 1998 to 2006, then senior councillor to CIA Director Michael Hayden under former President George W. Bush.
Mr. Buffett — and other billionaire investors like Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Nelson Peltz — essentially argue that the simple disclosure of an investment would cause the price to rise so much as to scuttle their strategy.
Although the court's ruling included a strong endorsement for donor disclosure, the ruling essentially lifted a major obstacle to dark money in elections by allowing nonprofits to use corporate donations to fund express electoral expenses.
Robert E. Mannion, a former deputy general counsel for the Fed, said it had "essentially stonewalled" and said that greater disclosure about the lending programs was warranted.
A comprehensive disclosure of strategy information essentially encompasses prognostic information on businesses, strategic objectives, the resulting business strategies, and implementation priorities (Thompson and Strickland 2003).
