Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
The need for courts and the judiciary to operate in public and for their activities to be open to public scrutiny is a well-established goal of liberal democracies. One of its recent policy manifestations is in debates about confidence in the justice system and initiatives designed to improve confidence. In the majority of cases, public scrutiny of court and judicial activity relies upon the media. Reports in regional and national newspapers have long been – and research suggests continue to be – an important source of information, shaping public knowledge and facilitating public scrutiny of the justice system. Unlike in some other common law jurisdictions, in the UK there is almost no scholarship on these representations, past or present. The result is that little is known about the representation of courts and the judiciary in Press reports. The aim of this paper is to take a first step towards changing that state of affairs. It uses a data set made up of 205 contemporary newspaper reports of court and judicial activity. These come from a sample of 24 daily newspapers: 10 national newspapers and 14 from the regions. All were published on Thursday 16 February 2012, an unexceptional day in the life of the justice system and the Press. The modest goal of this paper is to offer an analysis of this snapshot of the courts and the judiciary in the Press in England and Wales.
I am extremely grateful to Daniel Monk and Hedi Viterbo for their insightful comments on an earlier draft, and for the responses from the two anonymous reviewers, who provoked me to undertake further reading and reflection. Responsibility for the shortcoming of the analysis remains mine.
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54. Chibnall, above n 24, p 13.
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60. Anon ‘Farm sales to China blocked’ The Independent, 16 February 2012.
61. HepworthC ‘Sun, sea and a 10 minute divorce – yours for £4,500’ Western Mail, 16 February 2012.
62. Anon ‘Tiny flaw in sex rap’ The Sun, 16 February 2012.
63. This includes those courts that have direct relevance to domestic law, such as the European Court of Human Rights.
64. Anon ‘Mulcaire granted hack case appeal’ Lancashire Telegraph, 16 February 2012.
65. Daily Telegraph Reporter ‘Scientist who quit job over professor's “yelling” wins £30,000’ The Daily Telegraph, 12 February 2012.
66. BurrellI ‘Pub landlords face jail in new Sky crackdown on Tv football’ The Independent, 16 February 2012.
67. One report that appeared in a number of the national papers related to witness anonymity programmes in criminal trials. Reports focused on compensation paid to a witness whose identity had been granted anonymity and then was named by the prosecution, causing the witness and family to flee from their home. See DavenportJ and BenthamM ‘Yard and Cps pledge to protect witnesses’ London Evening Standard, 16 February 2012.
68. PillingD ‘India's “bumble bee” defies gravity’ Financial times, 16 February 2012.
69. CattonR ‘Killer “could soon walk free from York jail”’ The Press, 16 February 2012.
70. A Nexis search revealed that the case was reported in the digital editions of The Guardian and The Independent. It also appeared in a smaller and cheaper sister publication of The Independent. Addition regional papers reports were also discovered but not included in the analysis.
71. Sugar (Deceased) (Represented by Fiona Paveley) v British Broadcasting Corporation [2012] UKSC 4.
72. See eg Daily Telegraph Reporter ‘Obese woman who demands carers to help her get out of bed and take her to the disco’ The Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2012.
73. See eg GibbonsB ‘Express challenges Spelman injunction’ Birmingham Mail, 16 February 2012.
74. Anon ‘Naked rambler fined’ Sheffield Star, 16 February 2012.
75. WoodV ‘Naked rambler sees his cover story fall down’ (front page) and ‘Naked rambler kept a score of public reactions’ The Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2012, 5.
76. Anon ‘Naked rambler “surprised” by court's reaction’ Yorkshire Post, 16 February 2012.
77. BainesJ ‘Naked rambler fined after stroll in park’ Yorkshire Evening Post, 16 February 2012.
78. Anon ‘Naked rambler kept score of reactions at beauty spot’ The times, 16 February 2012.
79. Anon ‘Backpack and crack’ The Sun, 16 February 2012.
80. Anon ‘Rambler stripped of £315 for bare cheek’ Metro, 16 February 2012.
81. Narain J ‘Naked hiker who found a policeman in his path’ Daily Mail, 16 February 2012.
82. Anon, above n 76; Baines, above n 77.
83. Chibnall, above n 24, pp 31–33.
84. Fox etal., above n 16, pp 6–7.
85. Ibid, p 6.
86. Soothill and Walby, above n 21, p 65.
87. Ibid, p 146. Keer's appeal against conviction was successful. The appeal did receive some Press: see eg E Allen ‘Not another naked rambler! Naturist vows to continue his walks after judge overturns his conviction for causing distress to woman dog walker’ Mailonline, 9 October 2012, available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215043/Not-naked-rambler-Naturist-vows-continue-walks-judge-overturns-conviction-causing-distress-woman-dog-walker.html (accessed 19 March 2013).
88. Sugar v British Broadcasting Corporation, above n 71.
89. Anon ‘Bbc bias claim rejected’ The times, 16 February 2012.
90. McDermottN and ThomasL ‘Bbc wins its £350,000 legal battle to suppress Israel report’ Daily Mail, 16 February 2012.
91. Anon ‘Bbc wins test case over “anti-Israel” bias’ The Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2012.
92. Anon, above n 64.
93. Ibid. The decision of the court was reported in other national papers on 15 February. The appeal was heard in May 2012. The judgment rejecting the appeal was delivered on 4 July 2012. See Phillips v Mulcaire [2012] UKSC 28.
94. StretchE ‘Date with terror’ Daily Mirror, 16 February 2012.
95. Daily Telegraph Reporter ‘Fireman is cleared in seat belt row with Pc “out to hit targets”’ The Daily Telegraph, 16 February 2012.
96. Daily Telegraph Reporter, above n 65.
97. KirbyD ‘Riddle over fork lift truck death of factory worker’ Manchester Evening News, 16 February 2012.
98. The Crown Court and the Coroner's Court also include a jury. There are few explicit references to the jury in the data set reports.
99. Haltom, above n 7, p 176.
100. Ibid, p 172.
101. Chibnall, above n 24, p 23.
102. Ibid, pp 24–26.
103. See eg TahirT ‘Minister's son, 17, blocks story with injunction’ Metro, 16 February 2012.
104. See eg Daily Telegraph Reporter, above n 72.
105. Fishman M Manufacturing the News (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980) p 74.
106. Ibid, p 70.
107. Fishman, above n 105, p 68.
108. Burrell, above n 66, p 59.
109. LawP ‘Councillor in call to ban prayers’ South Wales Echo, 16 February 2012; Anon ‘We say in our opinion: Do we need court to rule on religion?’ South Wales Echo, 16 February 2012.
110. Fishman, above n 105, p 60.
111. Soothill and Walby, above n 21, ch 2.
112. See eg Stretch, above n 24.
113. Sugar v British Broadcasting Corporation, above n 71.
114. As is standard practice, the Court provided a two-page ‘Press release’ that includes a page detailing the reasons for the decision.
115. Anon, above n 89.
116. Anon, above n 91.
117. Ibid.
118. McDermott and Thomas, above n 90.
119. Chibnall, above n 24, pp 37–41.
120. RipponP ‘Judge hits out at new cannabis law’ Sheffield Star, 16 February 2012.
121. SabeyR and PollardC ‘93,000 say scram; Sun readers back call to kick out vile Quatada’ The Sun, 16 February 2012.
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