Human Rights Act 2004

Everyone has the right to have criminal charges, and rights and obligations recognised by law, decided by a competent, independent and impartial court or tribunal after a fair and public hearing.

However, the press and public may be excluded from all or part of a trial—

to protect morals, public order or national security in a democratic society; or

if the interest of the private lives of the parties require the exclusion; or

if, and to the extent that, the exclusion is strictly necessary, in special circumstances of the case, because publicity would otherwise prejudice the interests of justice.

But each judgment in a criminal or civil proceeding must be made public unless the interest of a child requires that the judgment not be made public.