In the name of “security”, the Judiciary has come out to “ring-fence” court coverage with a bevy of restrictions. In Kiiza’s view, the prohibitive guidelines cast a long shadow over the constitutional principle of open justice and expounds that “democracy does not perish because courtrooms grow noisy. “The Judiciary claims that these measures are meant to preserve ‘the constitutional principle of open justice.’ Yet open justice cannot survive if the public’s eyes, ears and means of communication are systematically curtailed. Open justice proclaimed in word and defeated in practice is no open justice at all.