The Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 No. 759 (L. 19)

PART 5 E+W FORMS AND COURT RECORDS

[F1 ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN COURT RECORDS E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Rules 5.7-5.11 and cross-heading substituted for rules 5.7, 5.8 (4.10.2021) by The Criminal Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/849), rules 1, 5(c)

The open justice principle E+W

5.7.— (1) Where rules 5.8, 5.9, 5.10 and 5.11 apply, as well as furthering the overriding objective in accordance with rules 1.2 and 1.3 the court officer and the court must have regard to the importance of—

(a) dealing with criminal cases in public;

(b) allowing a public hearing to be reported to the public; and

(c) the rights of a person affected by a direction or order made, or warrant issued, by the court to understand why that decision was made.

(2) In rules 5.10 and 5.11 this requirement is called ‘the open justice principle’.]