Contempt of Court

Question	Answer
Section 9 Recording restrictions	- Banned from taking in/using tape recorder or make a recording - Contempt to b'cast audio - Common Law Contempt: Photography/sketches/other recording in & around court property/precinct - Covered by Criminal Justice Act 1925
Section 8: Confidentiality of Jury deliberation	- Contempt to disclose statements made by members of the jury
Defence	- Privilege: Providing no court postpone report of full/part of proceedings - Journos will not be in coc when covering court hearing in public & report is FAC & in good faith
Section 4	- Postponement: some matter should not be published for a set period of time to not create SROSP
Section 11	- Complete ban: prohibiting publication of details from ever being published where justice requires it
Substantial Risk	- Info derogatory of accused linking directly to crime - Photo ID an issue - Further the trial, geographically & time; less risk - OVP: 2004 Daily Star fined £60,000 ID two premiership footballers q'd over gang rape in London ID an issue
Courts Act 2003	- Courts can force media to pay full costs of trial is trial is prejudiced - Media can challenge & appeal under A10 of ECHR - OVP: Rosemary West appealed convictions, argued that media coverage did not give fair trial: rejected, jury asked only to act on evidence in court

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