Abstract
Abstract In recent years, media freedom to identify children and young persons involved in criminal proceedings has been both enlarged and diminished. On the one hand, the media have benefited from the acceptance by Parliament and the judges of the notion that certain classes of young offenders should be publicly identified. To this end, amendments to section 49 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (the 1933 Act) inserted by the Crime Sentences Act 1997 allow for restrictions on the identification of a child/young person convicted of an offence in the Youth Court to be lifted where ‘a court is satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so’. Guidance from the Home Office and Lord Chancellor’s Department has stated that the intention behind this provision is to allow a young person to be named upon conviction either where a serious offence has been committed or where the offending is of a persistent nature or has impacted on a number of people in the community.
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