Practice Statement (Supreme Court: Judgments)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 22 April 1998 |
| Date | 22 April 1998 |
| Court | Supreme Court of Judicature |
Lord Chief Justice's Court
Before Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Chief Justice, Mr Justice Turner and Mr Justice Penry-Davey
Practice Statement - Supreme Court judgments - new arrangements
New arrangements for the delivery of judgments in all divisions of the High Court and in the Court of Appeal would be introduced to facilitate the availability and speedy publication of the approved text of judgments and to prevent the dissemination of unapproved texts.
The arrangements, made in agreement with Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, Sir Richard Scott, Vice-Chancellor, and Sir Stephen Brown, President of the Family Division, were to be regarded as experimental and would apply forthwith.
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Chief Justice, so stated, when sitting in the Lord Chief Justice's Court, with Mr Justice Turner and Mr Justice Penry-Davey on April 22.
THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE stated:
Availability of handed down judgments in advance of the hearing: new arrangements
Unless the court otherwise ordered, for example, if a judgment contained price-sensitive information, copies of the written judgment would be made available to the parties' legal advisers at about 4pm on the second working day before judgment was due to be pronounced on condition that the contents were not communicated to the parties themselves until one hour before the listed time for pronouncement of judgment.
Delivery to legal advisers was made primarily to enable them to consider the judgment and decide what consequential orders they should seek. The condition was imposed to prevent the outcome of the case being publicly reported before judgment was given, since the judgment was confidential until then.
Some judges might decide to allow the parties' legal advisers to communicate the contents of the judgment to their clients two hours before the listed time, in order that they might be able to submit minutes of the proposed order, agreed by their clients, to the judge before the judge came into court, and it would be open to judges to permit more information about the result of a case to be communicated on a confidential basis to the
client at an earlier stage if good reason were shown for making such a direction.
If, for any reason, a party's legal advisers had special grounds for seeking a relaxation of the usual condition restricting disclosure to the party itself, a request for relaxation of the condition might be made informally through the judge's clerk, or through the associate, if the judge had no clerk.
A copy of the written judgment would be made available to any...
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