Action ruling on Shayler.FORMER MI5 officer David Shayler David Shayler born 24 December 1965, is a former MI5 (British Security Service) officer and self-declared messiah who was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act after passing documents to the Mail on Sunday yesterday won a court order preventing civil action against him while facing criminal trial on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. At the same High Court hearing, the Government was also given permission to drop civil action and lift an injunction injunction, in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity, is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to against the Mail on Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. which published Shayler's secret service allegations. But Shayler, 34, who denies all charges, said the case showed "arbitrary Irrational; capricious. The term arbitrary describes a course of action or a decision that is not based on reason or judgment but on personal will or discretion without regard to rules or standards. justice" because while he faces prosecution the paper does not. |
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