Article 6.22 Court to be Open

(a) (1) The place in which a court is sitting for the purpose of inquiring into or trying an offence shall be an open court to which the public generally may have access, so far as the same can conveniently contain them. However, the judge may, if they think fit, order at any stage in the any hearing or a trial of any particular case that the public generally, or any particular person or class of persons, shall not have access to, or be or remain in, the place used by the court.