ABSTRACT
Today’s digitalisation enables even greater reach with trials de-spatialised, freed of the necessity of physically attending on-site. Livestreamed trials available on YouTube, court websites, or other such online platforms and news reports blogged directly from the courtroom and published on news websites are two ways in which digitalisation has changed how we can attend trials, removing the need of physical presence. These new forms of attendance are ways of fulfilling goals of open justice, however in this chapter I will explore and problematise the implications of opening the courts to a far wider public than ever before via digital attendance, by discussing, “how much access is really in the public interest?”
