ABSTRACT
The public are excluded from the courtroom (s 47(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933). The only people entitled to be present in the youth court apart from the accused, her parents and the justices and their clerk are: • the lawyers representing the juvenile or the prosecution in the present case;
the lawyers cannot enter the courtroom if a case they are appearing in is not yet being dealt with;
• court officials (for example, the usher); • reporters (but note the reporting restrictions set out below); • probation officers and social workers; • witnesses giving evidence (and they are allowed to remain in court once
they have given evidence); • anyone else directly concerned in the case; • anyone whom the magistrates allow to be present (for example, law
students).
