https://news.sky.com/story/tv-cameras-to-be-allowed-into-criminal-trials-for-first-time-12659784
TV cameras are to be allowed into criminal trials for the first time from today but will only be able to film a few minutes of each case.
Coverage will be restricted to the judge handing down a sentence and explaining the reasons for it, with a time delay to avoid broadcasting any violent or abusive reaction.
The first televised sentencing, which will make history, will take place at the Old Bailey on Thursday, featuring the case of 25-year-old Ben Oliver, who admitted manslaughter after stabbing his elderly grandfather to death.
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Only Crown Court proceedings will be televised under the new law change, which was passed in 2020.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said: "Open justice is important, and the sentencing of serious criminal cases is something in which there is a legitimate public interest.
"It has always seemed to me that this is a part of the criminal process that can be recorded and broadcast in many cases, but not all, without compromising the administration of justice or the interests of justice."
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Photography was banned in all UK criminal courts after the publication of a snatched picture of notorious wife killer Dr Crippen standing in the Old Bailey dock in 1910.
The introduction of cameras follows a long campaign by the major TV news broadcasters, including Sky News.
Courts have always been open to the public, but most have only a few seats available, meaning people largely have to rely on the eye-witness accounts of court reporters.
Cameras were allowed first into the Supreme Court in 2009 and then the Court of Appeal four years later.
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Cameras were allowed into Scottish courts in 1992 and are permitted in courts around the world to varying degrees, notably in Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands and Ukraine.
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