This week, the issue has raised its head after an asylum seeker was found guilty of raping a vulnerable teenager in a park in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Secondly, she also imposed a temporary reporting restriction on the press so that Malik’s immigration status as an asylum seeker could not be published until the conclusion of the trial. This is precisely what the restriction said: “Order made under section 4 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 postponing publication reporting of the defendant’s immigration status until the trial is concluded. His immigration status was far from hidden inside the courtroom. Instead, Judge Shant, who was not the trial judge, felt that widespread publication that Malik was an asylum seeker could adversely affect justice being met in that any juror could have pre-conceived views ahead of hearing any of the actual evidence.