Britain allows tweeting from courtrooms

"The use of unobtrusive, handheld, virtually silent piece of modern equipment to text proceedings to the outside world as they unfold in court is unlikely to interfere with the administration of justice," Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge observed today.

But the new conquest for courtroom microbloggers may come with riders as according to Judge it may be confined only to court reporters.

The British Chief Justice, Guardian said, issued the interim guidance pending a public consultation involving the judiciary prosecutors, lawyers, the media and "interested members of the public".

Guardian said the ruling applied only to courts in England and Wales.
Twitter became a courtroom tool last week when a judge allowed mediamen to tweet from a bail hearing for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But two days later another judge barred it.