Channel 4 has agreed to hand over interview material from a Diana documentary to the High Court, waiving the confidentiality of two sources.
The channel was ordered to disclose further material relating to its documentary, Diana: The Witnesses In The Tunnel by Mr Justice Eady on Monday.
Eady ordered that the material should be disclosed to Lord Justice Scott Baker, the Diana inquest coroner.
A Channel 4 spokesman said the decision to comply with the court order and hand over the material was made on Monday night.
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‘After the order had been made, we had further discussions with the sources involved who, understanding the gravity of the situation, agreed to waive their confidentiality,’he said.
‘As a journalistic principle, Channel 4 seeks to protect journalistic sources.”
The new order relates to material containing accounts by witnesses of ‘relevant events’given to the programme-makers.
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Mr Justice Eady refused Channel 4 permission to appeal against the part of his order concerning confidential sources. Channel 4 could have applied directly to the Court of Appeal in a bid to challenge his ruling, had the sources not decided to waive their anonymity.
At a previous hearing, Eady ordered Channel 4 to disclose certain untransmitted footage of interviews recorded for the hour-long programme, which was broadcast in June.
The judge did not announce the reasons for his latest decision, but said he would give a full judgment as soon as possible.
In September, broadcast regulator Ofcom turned down 62 complaints about the documentary, which showed Princess Diana’s last moments – including photographs taken in the Paris road tunnel where she died 10 years ago.
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