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CAMERA (a Latin See also:adaptation of Gr. Kagapa, an arched chamber)  , in See also:law, a word applied at one See also:time to the See also:English See also:judges' See also:chambers in Serjeants' See also:Inn, as distinct from their See also:bench in See also:Westminster See also:Hall . It was afterwards applied to the judges' private See also:room behind the See also:court, and, hence, in the phrase in See also:camera, to cases heard in private, i.e. in chambers . So far as criminal cases are concerned, the courts have no See also:power to hear them in private, nor have they any power to See also:order adults (men or See also:women) out of court during the See also:hearing . In See also:civil proceedings at See also:common law, it may also be laid down that the public cannot be excluded from the court; in See also:Malan v . See also:Young, 1889, 6 T.L.R . 68, Mr See also:Justice See also:Denman held that he had power to hear the See also:case in camera, but he afterwards stated that there was considerable doubt among the judges as to the power to hear cases in camera, even by consent, and the case was, by consent of the parties, finally proceeded with before the See also:judge as arbitrator . In the court of See also:chancery it is the practice to hear in private cases affecting wards of the court and lunatics, See also:family disputes (by consent), and cases where a public trial would defeat the See also:object of the See also:action (See also:Andrew v . See also:Raeburn, 1874, L.K . 9 Ch . 522) . In ap action for infringement of a patent for a chemical See also:process the See also:defendant was allowed to See also:state a See also:secret process in camera (Badische Anilin ultd Soda Fabrik v . Gillman, 1883, 24 Ch .

D . 156) . The Court of See also:

Appeal has decided that it has power to sit in private; in Mellor v . See also:Thompson, 1885, 31 Ch . D . 55, it was stated that a public hearing would defeat the object of the action, and render the See also:respondent's success in the appeal useless, In matrimonial causes, the See also:divorce court, following the practice of the ecclesiastical courts under the provisions of the Matrimonial Causes See also:Act 1857, s . 22, hears suits for nullity of See also:marriage on See also:physical grounds in camera, but not petitions for See also:dissolution of marriage, which must be heard in open court . It was also decided in Druce v . Druce, 1903, 19 T.L.R . 387, that in cases for judicial separation the court has See also:jurisdiction to hear the case in camera, where it is satisfied that justice cannot be done by hearing the case in public .

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