What are the leading cases that support the open court principle?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from MacGougan v. Barraclough, 2017 BCCA 321 (CanLII):
The leading cases germane to the open court principle include Dagenais v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1994 CanLII 39 (SCC), [1994] 3 S.C.R. 835, and Re Application to Proceed in Camera, 2007 SCC 43. Public access to the courts and the reasons of the courts allows everyone the opportunity to see that justice is done, and that justice is administered in a non‑arbitrary manner in accordance with the rule of law.
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