Family Partner Neil Russell expressed concern over the plans in The Times, stating “The livestreaming of cases in the court of appeal could discourage litigants, which would be counterproductive for justice.”
Read the full article in The Times online here.
Neil also shared his expert opinion with eprivateclient, saying “There’s a “risk that focusing the lens of publicity on the cases in the Court of Appeal may be going too far when transcripts of the judgements are already available. But, as Supreme Court cases are already live streamed, there does not seem to be a valid reason not to extend this to the Court of Appeal as well, but this should not set a precedent for extending to the lower Courts.”
View the full article online in eprivateclient here.