ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes the case of the UK as example, as it was forbidden to film and broadcast court proceedings, while others, such as the USA, Australia and New Zealand, diverted from that interdiction. The courts and tribunals service will be reformed to increase efficiency, transparency and judicial diversity. Cameras circumvent walls and bring new dimensions to the ego, through the perversion of justice, and for the society, with the help of the Althusserian notion of ideology, a political dimension that results from the abolition of the opaque walls of the courtrooms. The chapter presents the Crime and Courts Act 2013 and the relation between open justice and transparency, and considers how work on voyeurism, simulacra, and meaning are relevant to the introduction on cameras in courts. The entire operation of filming and broadcasting, rather than fostering transparency, feels rather like the expression of a neoliberal manipulation than anything else.
