Does the fact a stalker was allowed to report on his own case have implications for future trials?
Earlier this month, ex-BBC presenter Alex Belfield was jailed for stalking and harassment. His victims included former colleagues at the corporation, among them Radio 2's Jeremy Vine. One striking aspect of the case was that he was given leave by the judge to file social media updates reporting on his own trial.So said Belfield on his YouTube channel The Voice of Reason, in a video entitled "BBC and police witch-hunt".
He would then upload his reports to the same social media channels the Crown Prosecution Service said he had continually used to harass his victims.Belfield's YouTube channel has more than 350,000 subscribers. His court reports regularly attracted thousands of comments and more than 100,000 views.Jeremy Vine was one of the BBC stars Belfield was found guilty of targeting
Mr Coad believes the judge in the case - Mr Justice Saini - would have had no choice other than to grant Belfield leave to file his reports - which totalled more than 30 updates and spanned the entire four weeks of the trial."The judge will think 'I can't tell him he can't report on the hearings because that would be a flagrant contradiction of the whole essence of open justice'.
it is a fundamental principle of open justice that court proceedings can be reported on by the media in an open and transparent way. Journalists have an obligation to ensure that a report of what was heard in court is accurate and not misleading. Some courts require journalists to provide evidence of media accreditation to gain access to proceedings.Following conviction, the judge warned him he needed to be "extra careful about... online communications".For another legal expert, the case was more of a one-off, in which Belfield's credentials as a journalist were key in allowing him to file reports on the trial.
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