Filming in British courts is now permitted in aftertrial time. Almost all city, county, Royal and superior courts of England and Wales are subject to filming.

From now on courts may legally be used as shooting areas. Such activity may be possible mostly in the evening – from 5 to 12 p.m. - and on holidays. At the same time one need not forget that shooting persons involved in a process is banned according to British legislation.

British courts are ready to provide filmmakers with furniture, wig and mantle stands and volumes of court cases for previous years.

The cost of one day of shooting differs from court to court. Thus, in London courts one has to pay 2,500 pounds for 12-hour shooting, the sum for others is 1,500. Certain reductions are made for educational filmmaking. Depending on a building such a film will cost 400 to 650 pounds to shoot. Besides, all those wishing to shoot in courts are to possess a security sum of 10 million pounds.