Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) Everyone has the right to have criminal charges, and rights and obligations recognised by law, decided by a competent, independent and impartial court or tribunal after a fair and public hearing.
(2) However, the press and public may be excluded from all or part of a trial—
(a) to protect morals, public order or national security in a democratic society; or
(b) if the interest of the private lives of the parties require the exclusion; or
(c) if, and to the extent that, the exclusion is strictly necessary, in special circumstances of the case, because publicity would otherwise prejudice the interests of justice.
(3) But each judgment in a criminal or civil proceeding must be made public unless the interest of a child requires that the judgment not be made public.