The High Court Registrar General has said there is no ban on journalists from attending and reporting court proceedings.
“Individual judges will be at liberty to decline access to any person at their chambers and the office of the private secretaries and personal assistants, including personal assistants attending to the court work of that judge from the personal assistants’ pool,” Registrar General Ashok Menon said in an official release here on Saturday.
The committee constituted to formulate the code for the press and the electronic media in relation to reporting of court proceedings will look into the issue of framing guidelines to provide prompt and easy access for journalists to judgments and orders which are pronounced and issued, the release said.
These observations were made at a joint meeting of the Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and the committee to formulate the code for the media for reporting High Court proceedings.
