Dr. Kenneth Burns:

Yes, it is doing so very clearly. For our childcare proceedings research from 2012 to 2018, we canvassed the views of judges and solicitors. The risk was too high. It may have been possible - thein camerarule does not explicitly prohibit it but nor does it specifically allow. In that type of scenario we would have needed to make submissions to every single judge who dealt with every single case. That meant it was unfeasible and high risk. Whatever about it being high risk to academics who have some degree of protection in legislation in terms of freedom of speech, it was too high a risk to place children and young people in that position. It was very clear that we could not proceed.