General provisions - Public access and restrictions on reporting - General provisions relating to suppression orders
207: Court must give reasons
You could also call this:
"The court must explain its decisions when making rules about what information can be shared publicly."
When a court makes, changes, or cancels a suppression order, it must explain why it made that decision.
You can think of a suppression order like a rule that stops some information from being shared publicly.
The court has to give reasons for its decision, but there are some exceptions.
If the court thinks there are exceptional circumstances, it might not share all the facts or reasons it used to make its decision publicly.
This means the court can keep some information private if it thinks it's necessary.
The court will still make a decision, but it might not tell everyone everything that led to that decision.
208: Duration of suppression order and right of review, or
"How long a court's secrecy rule lasts and when it can be changed"
Part 5General provisions Public access and restrictions on reporting: General provisions relating to suppression orders
207Court must give reasons
The court must give reasons for making, varying, or revoking a suppression order.
If the court is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist, it may decline to state in public all or any of the facts, reasons, or other considerations that it has taken into account in reaching its decision.
