During today’s hearing, the Panel issued an oral order on the publicity of the proceedings in this case, according to which the parties are ordered to engage into review of the private sessions of the transcripts of hearings within the specific deadlines.
As a general rule, the parties must further sufficiently identify a protected witness or confidential information in each of their request for redaction of information. In so doing, they should account for the need to ensure the greatest amount of publicity of these proceedings but also the effective protection of those who have been granted protective measures.
The Panel also introduced an additional measure, which should further foster the publicity of the proceedings: the parties will simultaneously file public redacted versions of the same filings along with their confidential filings, unless there are compelling reasons not to do so.
Please note that this oral order is related to the same matter we already announced earlier this year, when the Panel expressed its concern that much of the evidence in this trial had been private or closed.