(DOWNLOAD) "Honolulu Advertiser Inc. V. Takao" by Hawaii Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Honolulu Advertiser Inc. V. Takao
- Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 26, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Every court has supervisory power over its own records and files. And while the public does generally have the right, established by the common law, to inspect and copy public records and documents, including judicial records, State v. O'Connell, supra; Craemer v. Superior Court, supra, this right of access is not absolute, and the determination of whether and to what extent access is to be permitted "is one best left to the sound discretion of the trial court, a discretion to be exercised in the light of the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case." Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc., supra, at 1312. In this regard, the right of the news media to inspect and copy is no greater than that of the general public. Id.