The series was rarely away from the courts and the threat of legal action. The Scientologists tried - and failed - to stop "World in Action"'s broadcasts about them through the courts and in 1980, members of the programme's staff and senior executives at Granada TV announced that they would be prepared to go to prison rather than submit to a House of Lords ruling that the programme reveal the identity of an informant who had supplied "WIA" with 250 pages of secret documents from the then state-owned steel company British Steel Corporation which was at the time locked in an industrial dispute with its workforce.