Chapter 16 Self-test questions

Challenging the courts
If a reporter is opposing in a court the imposition of a reporting restriction, which part of the European Convention on Human Rights should he/she definitely refer to?

If a magistrates court steadfastly refuses to lift a reporting restriction, to which court should a media organization apply to challenge the magistrates' decision?

What level of risk to a defendant's safety is needed to justify a court using section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act to ban the media from identifying his/her address in their reports of the case?

A court can validly use section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 to ban the media from identifying an adult defendant in their reports if the court feels this ban is necessary to preserve anonymity for a child victim in the case.

Sexual offence law does not give courts any power to ban the media from identifying a defendant accused of a sexual offence.

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