The reason for this nearly absolute transparency obligation is not, of course, that the drafters and States parties lost sight of these legitimate interests between the penultimate and last clauses of article 14, paragraph 1; rather, the rule is absolute because it is never the case that a democratic society has an interest in concealing from the public even this final trace of the judicial process.
The reason for this nearly absolute transparency obligation is not, of course, that the drafters and States parties lost sight of these legitimate interests between the penultimate and last clauses of article 14, paragraph 1; rather, the rule is absolute because it is never the case that a democratic society has an interest in concealing from the public even this final trace of the judicial process.