"The public protector must not only discover the truth, but must also inspire confidence that the truth has been discovered," said the SCA.
Prior restraints on publication are a particularly oppressive form of censorship. Courts in societies that cherish the free exchange of information are loath to restrain the publication of an article, either because doing so is unconstitutional (in the United States) or because, as one English judge put it, "in this country we have a free press. Our press is free to get things right and it is free to get things wrong".