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Here's a telling line from the SDT's press release:

"The Tribunal will not be disclosing any documents in this matter."

How is that consistent with the SDT's claim to be "transparent"? Unless one of the parties has asked for (and obtained) an order prohibiting disclosure of documents deployed during a trial which was held in public, it cannot be right for the SDT to make a blanket prohibition on disclosing such documents. Why shouldn't members of the public (and the profession) be allowed to see such documents? Why shouldn't we be allowed to see the correspondence which passed between the SRA and the MoD? Why shouldn't we be allowed to see the Rule 5 statement and the response to it? Why shouldn't we be allowed to see the parties' statements of costs?

A journalist should challenge the SDT's position on this, because it is not compatible with the principle of open justice. But I bet that no journalist will do so.