Open Justice in UK Law
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Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Mr Graham Dring (for and on behalf of The Asbestos Victims Support Group)
... ... merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to ... It is, in short, about the extent and operation of the principle of open justice. As Toulson LJ said, in R (Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of ... ...
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Re BBC
... ... This appeal raises important issues concerning the principle of open justice: in particular, issues concerning the legal basis of the ... ...
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Al-Rawi & others v The Security Service & others
... ... (Instructed by Birnberg Peirce and Partners) ... Interveners (JUSTICE and Liberty) ... John Howell QC ... Naina Patel ... (Instructed by ... 4 The appellants filed an open defence in which they admitted that the claimants had been transferred and ... ...
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Khuja (formerly known as PNM) v Times Newspapers Ltd and Others
... ... avoiding a substantial risk of prejudice to the administration of justice in those proceedings, or in any other proceedings pending or imminent, ... At that time, he was still on bail. His application was heard in open court, and in the course of it the fact of PNM's arrest and the serious ... ...
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Kennedy v Information Commissioner and another (Secretary of State for Justice and Others intervening) [SC]
... ... preclude the court from permitting a non-party to have access to such documents if the court considered such access to be appropriate under the open justice principle" (para 74). That was a case concerning court documents, but the same general point applies to inquiry documents: section 32 is no ... ...
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R (Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2)
... ... Before: The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales ... The Master of the Rolls ... The President of ... They were read out in open court. Copies of the text were made available. The paragraphs were, as I ... ...
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Attorney General v Leveller Magazine Ltd
... ... Court of the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice of the 19th day of May 1978 might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen ... ; the magistrates assented to it and the witness then gave evidence in open court. He was throughout referred to as "Colonel B"; his real name was ... ...
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Clibbery v Allan and another
... ... The President ... Lord Justice Thorpe and ... Lord Justice Keene ... Case No: FD00F 10504 ... The guiding principle was open justice and this applied across the board. The practice of hearing cases ... ...
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Re S (A Child) (Identification: Restrictions on Publication)
... ... "First I recognise the primacy in a democratic society of the open reporting of public proceedings on grave criminal charges and the ... of a public hearing is to guard against an administration of justice in secret and with no public scrutiny and to maintain public confidence: ... ...
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Bank Mellat v HM Treasury (No 2)
... ... This decision is currently under appeal to the Court of Justice of the European Union and is suspended pending that appeal. Subject to ... 15 In his open judgment Mitting J made the following findings, which represent at best a ... ...
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