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HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 2004 - SECT 21

Fair trial

    (1)     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.

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

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

        (b)     if the interest of the private lives of the parties require the exclusion; or

        (c)     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.

    (3)     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.



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