A court has backed the right of the press to report a Crown Court.

Publication in the Gloucestershire papers came despite a bid by defence lawyers to ban publication, under the Contempt of Court Act, of a report of a case of causing the death of a schoolboy by dangerous driving.

Section Four of the act provides the chance for press reports to be suspended until a later date if there is a chance that publication of the evidence might prejudice a future hearing.

The defendant was also charged with dangerous driving in a separate incident on a different day and with being involved in an affray.

He was making an application for the driving matters to be heard by separate juries.

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