Lawyers welcome naming of Tory donor in money-laundering case
Anonymity lifted from Javad Marandi in NCA claim for forfeiture of assets against three other individuals
May 2019
Sajid Javid wants high court hearing into MI5 failures to be secret
Home secretary applies for closed hearing into ‘serious’ breaches by security service
January 2019
Secret judgments database opened to special advocates and senior judges
Indexed repository of some closed intelligence and security decisions created to improve access
October 2017
Closed justice: how British courts are still keeping the public in the dark
Rob Evans
The petrochemical company Ineos has finally disclosed a legal document used to justify an injunction against anti-fracking protesters, writes the Guardian reporter Rob Evans
March 2017
Government's £1bn plan for online courts 'challenges open justice'
Thinktank warns prison and courts bill, which would see low-level hearings moved online, risks ‘further discrimination against vulnerable defendants’
January 2017
Destruction of court records 'hampers miscarriage of justice inquiries'
Open Justice Charter calls for restrictions to be lifted and court documents to be kept for at least seven years
October 2016
Man who rejected MI5 convicted of terror charge after semi-secret trial
Anas Abdalla, who claims he was harassed after refusing to become informant, found guilty of preparing to join Isis
October 2015
Secret court case application numbers more than double in a year
Civil liberties groups express concern over open justice as Ministry of Justice figures show rise in closed material procedure cases
March 2015
Why is the crux of the Incedal case a secret? You're not allowed to know
The public have not been told who or what was behind the prosecution of Erol Incedal, who has been cleared of plotting a terror attack
November 2014
Ferguson riots and secret MI6 evidence highlight necessity of open justice
Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rozenberg: Justice must be visible to command public confidence – that is the lesson from Ferguson and parliament’s Rigby inquiry
October 2014
Abdel Hakim Belhaj wins right to sue UK government over his kidnap
Court rules case of Libyan exile, who was flown to Tripoli and tortured, can go ahead despite government attempts to stop it
Judges in Abdel Hakim Belhaj case right to call the government’s bluff
Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rozenberg: The government claimed there was a ‘risk of serious harm’ to UK national security in allowing the Libyan exile to sue over his rendition
Why police transparency about terrorism arrests is to be welcomed
Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rozenberg: Scotland Yard’s openness about terrorism charges doesn’t violate the Contempt of Court Act, but it builds public trust
September 2014
Greenslade
Judge sits in public to 'explain' why he is hearing a case in private
Greenslade
Defence ministry agrees to provide court information to reporters
Greenslade
Society of Editors to investigate military trial 'obstructionism'
Greenslade
Calling Miscellaneous in the case of Miscellaneous versus Miscellaneous
July 2014
Government wants impunity from UK courts over torture, judges told
Lawyer acting for Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was tortured in Libya after MI6-aided abduction, says case has profound implications
June 2014
Secret trial of terror suspects delayed until October
Selection of journalists to attend terror trial raises fears over press freedom
