  Open Courts Bench Book
1 Introduction
2 Powers to make orders qualifying open justice
  3 Grounds and Necessity
  3.1 Proceeding suppression orders and closed court orders
3.2 Broad suppression orders
3.3 The requirement of necessity
3.4 Ground 1: Administration of justice
3.4.1 Category 1: Protecting the jury from prejudicial information or ensuring a fair trial for the accused
3.4.2 Category 2: Protection of trade secrets and similar information
3.4.3 Category 3: Informers, undercover police operatives and police methods
3.4.4 Category 4: Blackmail, extortion, sexual servitude and slavery cases
3.4.5 Category 5: Proceedings not in the ordinary course of litigation
3.4.6 Category 6: Where the court sits as parens patriae
3.5 Ground 2: National security
3.6 Ground 3: Safety of persons
3.7 Grounds 4 and 5: Undue distress or embarrassment
4 Procedure
5 Types of orders
6 Objects of suppression
7 Limitations on orders
8 Reviews and appeals
9 Breach
10 Rights and obligations of parties and the media
11 Model orders and undertakings
Index
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