Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

137.   Court may forbid publication of report

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    (1)   If in a case involving any offence referred to under section 136 (1), the Court is of the opinion that the interests of the complainant so require, or the defence or prosecution so requests, it may make an order forbidding publication of any report or account giving details of the criminal acts alleged to have been performed on the complainant or of any acts that the complainant is alleged to have been compelled or induced to perform or to consent to or acquiesce in.

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    (2)   The breach of an order made under subsection (1) or any evasion or attempted evasion of it, may be dealt with as contempt of Court.