The Centre of Law, Justice and Journalism’s open justice initiative aims to make recommendations for the way judicial information and legal data are communicated in a digital era. Its official project page can be found on the City University London website at this link. This page lists related resources and recommended reading. Working papers from the Justice Wide Open event were published in June 2012.

Conference: Justice Wide Open, 29 February 2025

• Programme

• Speakers

• Audio

• Working papers

Reports and commentary

• Justice Wide Shut, Adam Wagner, UK Human Rights Blog

• Court short of basic information, Judith Townend, Guardian.co.uk

• The collision between uncodified open justice and copyright/data protection, William Perrin, Talk About Local

• Court, news and the record: a shocking information gap, George Brock

• Press ‘must do better to protect open justice’, PA Media Lawyer (subscription required)

• Digital age poses challenge for jury trials, PA Media Lawyer (subscription required)

• Round up on the CLJJ blog

• Tweets from the event

Related discussion / recommended reading

• Lord Neuberger’s seven principles empower judges to speak, Lawrence McNamara, Guardian.co.uk, 16.03.12

• A charter for open justice, William Perrin, Guardian.co.uk, 15.03.12

• Open justice charter versus privacy rights, Jon Baines, Information Rights and Wrongs blog, 16.03.12

• Courts and councils: please make it easier to get information, David Mascord, Journalism learning blog, 15.03.12

Papers

The open justice principle

• A Great Tradition of Open Justice, Geoffrey Robertson QC

• Open Justice Unbound? Lord Neuberger

• Justice in a Cold Climate, Dr David Goldberg

The flow of legal knowledge

• Towards Legal Transparency, Hugh Tomlinson QC

• The Free Legal Info Landscape, Emily Allbon

• Accessible Law, Nick Holmes

• Catching Up with the Transparency Revolution, David Banisar

Court reporting and the media

• Secret Justice, Heather Brooke

• Open and Shut Justice, Mike Dodd

• A Corrective to Bad Journalism, Adam Wagner

• Court in the Net, William Perrin

Open justice: an academic perspective

• Twitt(er)ing Open Justice? Professor Ian Cram

• Judicial Perspectives on Open Justice and Security, Dr Lawrence McNamara

• ‘Secrecy’ in the Court of Protection, Lucy Series