Judges’ sentencing remarks in eight Crown Courts are to be filmed but not broadcast, the Ministry of Justice and Lord Thomas, the Lord Chief Justice, have announced. The pilot will allow television cameras into the Crown Court for the first time. The three-month pilot will take place in the Old Bailey and the Crown Courts at Southwark, Manchester (Crown Square), Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds and Cardiff. Lord Thomas said the cameras would film only the judge and not court staff, victims, witnesses, defendants, advocates or other court users.
25 March 2016
Cameras in Crown Court
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