Cases

Re Child X (Residence and Contact - Rights of media attendance - FPR Rule 10.28(4))

Held

Granting the application:

(a) Cases involving children of celebrities are no different to those involving any other children but press interest in a case will be more intense where celebrity parents are involved and the need for the child's protection will similarly be more intense.

(b) Under Rule 10.28 the court should consider whether any information received in confidence is involved. Matters had to date proceeded on the basis of the case's privacy and the confidentiality of X’s exchanges with her doctors and to withdraw this would constitute a betrayal of trust and present a grave danger to the case’s successful outcome.

(c) In deciding whether the grounds for exclusion override the media's presumptive right to be present, the court must have regard to whether the press’ interests lie in reporting on matters which may well be the object of interest and curiosity but which are confidential or private and do not involve matters of public i

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