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Quite right.

Justice must be seen to be done, but the courts are there neither to provide stories for journalists nor to sell newspapers or programmes. Their right to report what goes on in them is merely a collateral benefit they get from the fact that hearings take place in public. If documents would not otherwise be accessible to the public at large, there's no justification whatever in any claim by the media that it occupies some special position that should give it some privileged right to demand to be able to see them. To allow them to do so is an abuse of the litigants and those personally the subject of the proceedings.