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Index

Foreword
Preface

Introduction
1. Introduction

Hearings from which the Public are excluded
2. Hearings from which the Public are Excluded

Automatic Reporting Restrictions
3. Automatic Reporting Restrictions
3.1 Victims of sexual offences
3.2 Rulings at pre-trial hearings
3.3 Preparatory hearings
3.4 Dismissal proceedings where there has been no committal
3.5 Indecent material calculated to injure public morals
3.6 Proceedings in the absence of the jury while the trial continues

Discretiionary Reporting Restrictions
4. Discretionary Reporting Restrictions
4.1 Protection of young persons and adult witnesses
4.2 Names and other matters withheld in court
4.3 Postponing prejudicial contemporaneous reports of proceedings
4.4 Postponing reports of derogatory assertions made in pleas in mitigation

Other Restrictions on Reporting
5. Other Restrictions on Reporting
5.1 Unauthorised recording of court proceedings
5.2 Jury's deliberations

General Considerations
6. General Considerations
6.1 Jigsaw identification

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