The Privy Council has released their rationale in striking down Government’s gag order against the local media:
The public interest in the freedom of the media to disseminate information relating to those who submitted themselves for election as legislators overrode the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of documents relating to a police investigation into allegations of corruption…
[Government lawyer] Mr. Guthrie protested that the allegations had been fully investigated by the police and the investigation had shown no criminal prosecution of those prominent individuals was warranted.
His Lordship agreed that was so, but the test of whether or not a criminal prosecution should be brought was not the same as the test of whether disclosure to the public of “confidential information relating to improprieties falling short of criminality in which prominent public figures were involved” was justified…
In other words, the fact that an action is unethical as opposed to illegal is barely an improvement.