THEORY OF VESTED INTEREST: FALLACY OF PUBLIC INTEREST APPLICABILITY OF STATE PRIVILEGE IN CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE LAW
Downloads
Abstract
“Information is the currency of democracy”, broached Thomas Jefferson, trusted with the task of structuring the Government form, unknown, untold, and untested. Democracy was to break the ages old shackles of justification of arbitrary crown control on the maxim that Crown always operated in the interest of the subjects. Constitutional provision of Transparency in the Government of People’s Will was the direct American response to the historical abuse of authority by the British Crown. However, sparked off from The Trial of Aaron Burr, the right to withhold certain information from the public, finally crystallized in United States V Reynold’s, where Courts formally recognized that withholding certain information and selective transparency in specific cases is in the public interest, which is paramount. This paper aims to critique the Doctrine of State Privilege by way of comparison with the original intent of the drafters, its need in the colonial era and present day conflict, post enforcement of the constitution of America and India.
External References to this Article
Loading reference data...
License Terms
Ownership and Licensing:
Authors of research papers submitted to any journal published by The Law Brigade Publishers retain the copyright of their work while granting the journal specific rights. Authors maintain ownership of the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Simultaneously, authors agree to license their research papers under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License.
License Permissions:
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License, others are permitted to share and adapt the work, even for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given to the authors, and acknowledgment is made of the initial publication by The Law Brigade Publishers. This license encourages the broad dissemination and reuse of research papers while ensuring that the original work is properly credited.
Additional Distribution Arrangements:
Authors are free to enter into separate, non-exclusive contractual arrangements for distributing the published version of the work (e.g., posting it to institutional repositories or publishing it in books), provided that the original publication by The Law Brigade Publishers is acknowledged.
Online Posting:
Authors are encouraged to share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites) both prior to submission and after publication. This practice can facilitate productive exchanges and increase the visibility and citation of the work.
Responsibility and Liability:
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted research papers do not infringe on the copyright, privacy, or other rights of third parties. The Law Brigade Publishers disclaims any liability for any copyright infringement or violation of third-party rights within the submitted research papers.
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright © 2026 by Rohan Agarwal
The copyright and license terms mentioned on this page take precedence over any other license terms mentioned on the article full text PDF or any other material associated with the article.
