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STV to make first ever live broadcast of Scottish court hearing with Alistair Carmichael case

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By Tony Connelly, Sports Marketing Reporter

September 1, 2015 | 3 min read

STV's agreement with the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service will allow it to provide television pictures from the trial to other broadcasters and media organizations.

STV will be the first broadcaster in the UK to televise a Scottish court hearing live and in full, following an agreement with the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service.

The case against MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael, will be live streamed on STV player and broadcast live from the Court of Session in Edinburgh on the STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh channels.

The agreement will see special remotely-controlled cameras installed in Court 1 in Parliament Square; allowing STV to provide television pictures from the trial to other broadcasters and media organisations. The court will also allow journalists to use Twitter during the proceedings to live tweet.

Head of news at STV, Gordon Macmillan, said he was “delighted” to have the opportunity to provide the ground-breaking broadcast and hailed it as a “significant advance in the televising of the Scottish courts.”

A spokesperson for the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service said it was “pleased STV has agreed to facilitate” the broadcast of the court case. They added that the guidelines put in place would “enable constituents in Orkney and Shetland as well as across the whole of the UK to view the trial.

Alistair Carmichael faces a legal challenge against his re-election following his involvement in the leaking of a memo intended to damage SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon. The legal petition against the former Scottish secretary argues that his re-election to the seat of Orkney and Shetland following May's general election contravenes the Representation of the People Act because voters were unaware of his involvement in the leak.

The case will begin at 10.30am on Monday 7 September and will be heard by judges Lady Paton and Lord Matthews in the Election Court, which will sit for the first time in Scotland since 1965.

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