This is an application to vary an order dated 10 March 2020 made by the court at common law and under section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981:
“preventing the publication of the names and identity, and any information likely to disclose the identity, of the complainers in the case of HMA v Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond”
[2] Section 11 provides that where a court having power to do so, allows a name or other matter to be withheld from the public in proceedings before the court,
“the court may give such directions prohibiting the publication of that name or matter in connection with the proceedings as appear to the court to be necessary for the purpose for which it was so withheld.”
It is not disputed that the court had power at common law to order the identity of the complainers in the proceedings to be withheld from the public.
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