This act tightly limits what can be published contemperaneously from a preliminary hearing in a magistrates court.
They restrict media reports of 'allocation' and 'sending' hearings from disclosing information which could create a risk of prejudice to jury trials and cover any hearing of such cases at the magistrates' courts which occurs before allocation and sending.
The concern is that people reading or listening to a news report of a preliminary hearing might include some who will later be called to be jurors in that case when it's tried at Crown court. Justice demands that jurors try the case only on the evidence put in front of them.
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