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public-interest immunity| UK legal concept asserted to protect the interests of national security or diplomatic relations, or to protect the ‘integrity of communications with or within a public department’, by not disclosing sensitive material in a court of law. |
| Known popularly as ‘gagging orders’, they were used in the case involving defence-related exports to Iraq by the Matrix Churchill company, which led to the 1993–94 Scott inquiry, producing the 1996 Scott Report. |
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