Foreword
Introduction
1. Access to court information and accuracy checks in criminal proceedings
2. Hearings from which the public may be excluded
3. Automatic reporting restrictions

3.1 Victims of sexual offences
3.2 Indecent material calculated to injure public morals
3.3 Pre-trial hearings: criminal proceedings
3.4 Youth Court
3.5 Civil proceedings, family proceedings
3.6 Anti-Social Behaviour Orders

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 (Civil and Criminal Proceedings)
4.4 Postponement of reports of false derogatory assertions made in pleas in mitigation

5. Unauthorised recording of court proceedings
6. General considerations
7. Children and young persons: Quick reference guide
Annex: Advice and guidance for magistrates