Challenging the Courts by https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2 en-us 2018-11-15 16:42:26 UTC 2025-03-15 08:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com ian_muir_cochrane1 https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2/wish/304895721 2018-11-15 16:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2/wish/304895721 ian_muir_cochrane1 https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2/wish/307549991 2018-11-25 19:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2/wish/307549991 Charlotte Yorke https://padlet.com/ian_muir_cochrane1/cnzgao1gxcj2/wish/307586388
  • The rules are called Civil Procedure Rules
  • No the clerk is not right as the new journalist is qualified. Section 47 of the CYPA says the public cannot attend youth court cases but bona fide journalists can. A bona fide journalist is someone who can prove their status as a qualified journalist with an ID card etc.
  • Section 121 of the Magistrates Court Act requires magistrates to sit in open court when conducting a trial, imposing a prison sentence or at a committal hearing (unless there are very specific reasons not to.)
  • Magistrates must disclose names of magistrates, For example, in the High Court case of R v Felixstowe magistrates, 1987 the Observer was refused name of a magistrate. Lord Justice Watkins said: “There is, in my view, no such person known to the law as the anonymous JP.”
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