On camera – what impact will televised court proceedings have on justice? – Legal Week

Posted April 20th, 2012 in courts, media, news, reporting restrictions by sally

“Television cameras were yesterday allowed to record the sentencing of David Gilroy in the High Court in Edinburgh. This is the first time that sentencing in a UK court has been filmed for broadcast the same day – normally proceedings in Scotland are only occasionally filmed for documentaries to be broadcast weeks or months later and are heavily edited by lawyers involved in the case. Filming in most English courts has been banned since 1925.”

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Legal Week, 19th April 2012

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