MI5 agent, has escaped the clutches of the Official Secrets Act only by going into hiding abroad.
He is accused of breaking the Official Secrets Act by leaking to journalists documents detailing alleged government corruption.
Mr Shayler, currently in exile in France, faces attempts in the UK to prosecute him under the Official Secrets Act.
The former MI5 officer was found guilty of disclosing information, documents and information from telephone taps in breach of the Official Secrets Act.
Simon Chesterman, a law professor at the National University of Singapore, notes that Britain's tough Official Secrets Act would also outlaw WikiLeaks' actions.
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What lies inside was once subject to the Official Secrets Act.
He earned his PhD in Physics at the University of Bristol and in 1942 was granted British citizenship and even signed the Official Secrets Act.
Casburn, who will now face Met Police disciplinary proceedings, was accused of a separate charge under the Official Secrets Act but the prosecution offered no evidence.
He says Congress had always rejected a U.K. style Official Secrets Act, and that it was the role of the press to disclose wrong-doing by government officials.
But it is so broad as to be little-used in prosecution many fear that it could become like Britain's Official Secrets Act, which would dampen public discussion of national affairs.
The law lords unanimously said there was no incompatibility between the 1989 Official Secrets Act, under which Shayler faces prosecution, and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights guaranteeing "freedom of expression".
The only plausible conclusion for your failure to give this assurance is that you were aware that Damian Green, or another Member of Parliament, was the subject of the investigation - conducted not under the Official Secrets Act, but an antiquated common law misconduct offence.
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