Rola mediów w kształtowaniu wizerunku wymiaru sprawiedliwości – zarys problematyki
Role of Media in the Forming of the Image of the Judiciary – Outline of Issues

Summary/Abstract: The media transmission is performing the substantial role in the forming of the social image of functioning of bodies of the judiciary. It is held through the process of the cooperation in frames of legal education concerning standards of functioning of courts and principles and procedural guarantees concerning all participants in legal proceedings. Appearing media news reports diverge from their main role, i.e. informing and serving the general public, and distort the image of the administration of justice. The distortion contributes to deepening the existing divergences between the real functioning of courts and the work of lawyers, and the image which has been created by the media. It influences the negative evaluation of the functioning of the entire judiciary system and lowers trust in the law as well as institutions that create it and use it. It can also cause populist aspiration among some politicians to change currently applicable rules of law or its distortion by the media.

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