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public interest immunity

noun

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A ground on which a court may withhold relevant material whose disclosure would damage the public interest.

The minister claimed public interest immunity over the informant's identity.

Similar: Crown privilege

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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