What is the scope of the court’s view on public forum and the use of the courtroom?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Pilarinos, 2001 BCSC 1332 (CanLII):
In the context of the public forum and the use of the courtroom, the court said this, at p. 24, footnote 13, quoting Shepherd v. Maxwell, 384 U.S. 333, 358, 86 S.Ct. 1507): “. . . the courtroom and the courthouse premises are subject to the control of the court”. Moreover, courts, like schools and libraries, are at most only secondarily institutions to foster public debate. Rather courts exist primarily to adjudicate legal controversies. Thus, they are public forums only in a special sense, “with the government enjoying”, as one commentator has put it, “the power to preserve such tranquility as the facilities’ central purpose requires.”
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