Domestic and Appellate Proceedings (Restriction of Publicity) Act 1968
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1968 c. 63 |
| Year | 1968 |
(1) Where an appeal is brought against a decision of any of the courts mentioned in subsection (4) below, or an application is made for leave to appeal against a decision of any of those courts, and that court had power to sit in private during the whole or any part of the proceedings in which the decision was given, then, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, the court hearing the appeal or application shall have power to sit in private during the whole or any part of the proceedings on the appeal or application.(2) Without prejudice to the next following subsection, the court hearing the appeal or application shall give its decision and the reason for its decision in public unless there are good and sufficient grounds for giving them in private and in that case the court shall state those grounds in public.is a conviction, or a sentence or other order made on conviction, orwas given in the exercise of jurisdiction to punish for contempt of court,(4) The courts referred to in subsections (1) and (3) above are the Court of Appeal, the High Court F1the Crown CourtF21, the family court, . . . , . . ., . . . , F20the county court and a magistrates’ court.(5) An application to a court to sit in private during the whole or any part of the proceedings on such an appeal or application as is mentioned in subsection (1) above shall be heard in private unless the court otherwise directs.(6) The powers conferred on a court by this section shall be in addition to any other power of the court to sit in private.(7) In this section references to a power to sit in private are references to a power to sit in camera or 0in chambers, but the power conferred by this section on a court which has no power to sit in chambers is a power to sit in camera only.(8) In this section “appeal” includes appeal by case stated, and references to a court include references to a judge exercising the powers of a court.proceedings under section 39 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 (which relates to declarations of legitimacy and the like) , including any proceedings begun before the commencement of that Act and carried on under that section; andproceedings under section 22 of that Act (which relates to proceedings by a wife against her husband for maintenance) , including any proceedings begun before the said commencement and carried on under that section and any proceedings for the discharge or variation of an order made or deemed to have been made under that section or for the temporary suspension of any provision of any such order or the revival of the operation of any provision so suspended. . . . proceedings under section 27 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (which relates to proceedings by a wife against her husband, or by a husband against his wife, for financial provision) and any proceedings for the discharge or variation of an order made under that section or for the temporary suspension of any provision of any such order or the revival of the operation of any provision so suspended.proceedings under Part III of the Family Law Act 1986proceedings under Part 9 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (provision corresponding to the provision referred to in paragraph (c) above) ;
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