Crown Privilege in United Kingdom

Definition of Crown Privilege

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Crown Privilege : The right of the Crown to withhold documentary evidence in any legal proceedings on the grounds that its disclosure would injure the public interest. It was expressly preserved by the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (See Crown proceedings). In certain limited cases, however, the courts have demanded to inspect documents for which *privilege is claimed and rejected the claim as unwarranted.