The recent judgment by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (‘SIAC’) granting the media partial access to information in the case of H6 vs Secretary of State for the Home Department (SC/205/2023) has reignited debate about open justice and press scrutiny. The application to access the court documents is the latest in a series of challenges faced by the media when reporting on this contentious case. Continue reading
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In October 2023, Inforrm had a post concerning the commencement of statutory anonymity for those accused of sexual offences, for life and beyond, unless charged. Continue reading
Giving the keynote speech at the Society of Editors 25th anniversary conference on 30 April 2024 the Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-On-The-Hill, announced the establishment of a new Transparency and Open Justice Board, to be chaired by Mr Justice Nicklin. She said: Continue reading
A statistical analysis of the civil High Court judgments published in 2023 showed that, out of 116 cases where one or more parties had been anonymised, 67 (or nearly 60%) did not have a corresponding anonymisation order published on the Judiciary website. While around half of these (34) did make some reference to anonymity or reporting restrictions in the judgment itself, the remainder (33) made no such reference. Continue reading
The death of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey at Culcheth Linear Park in February 2023 sent shockwaves across the United Kingdom. On 20 December 2023, Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were found guilty of Brianna’s murder, subsequently receiving life imprisonment sentences on 2 February 2024. Continue reading
Some readers may recall that in June 2018 the Court of Justice issued a press release, to the effect that, in keeping with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Court had taken the following decision: Continue reading
This is the second part of a two part post considering the report of the House of Commons Justice Committee on “Open justice: court reporting in the digital age”. The Part One the post can be found here. Continue reading
Over the past few years – especially in the first year of COVID-19 and the emergency move to remote proceedings – it was frustrating to witness bold claims about the provision of access to court hearings and reporters’ rights when the evidence on the ground was that reporters and other observers were having difficulties entering courts and accessing virtual hearings. Continue reading
A potential claimant who wishes to seek permission to issue proceedings anonymously (“an anonymity order”) in the KBD should do so at the same time as issuing the claim form and not before, according to the most recent edition of the King’s Bench Guide. Continue reading
On 1 November 2021, three days after the publication of the President’s Report on Transparency, Mostyn J handed down judgment in a case called BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87; [2022] 1 WLR 1349. This has turned out to be the first in a series of six judgments in which Mostyn J has rewritten the rules governing the reporting of financial remedies cases in the family courts described in Part One of this article. Continue reading
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