{"id":18839,"date":"2012-03-30T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T05:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2012-03-30T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T05:35:36","slug":"supreme-court-wants-balanced-reporting-of-court-proceedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-wants-balanced-reporting-of-court-proceedings","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court wants balanced reporting of court proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-wants-balanced-reporting-of-court-proceedings\/supreme-court-199\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18841\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18841\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-wants-balanced-reporting-of-court-proceedings\/supreme-court-199\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"276,183\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"supreme court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?fit=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?fit=276%2C183&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18841\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?resize=276%2C183&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?w=276&amp;ssl=1 276w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/supreme-court18.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Thursday advocated balanced reporting of court proceedings, saying reports need to carry views of both sides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My personal view is that if the views of both the sides are covered, particularly when one&#8217;s reputation is involved, then many of these problems would not arise,&#8221; Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said.<\/p>\n<p>He was hearing an appeal to put in place guidelines to balance the freedom of press with the rights of accused under trial.<\/p>\n<p>Kapadia said the commercial considerations and race for competitive edge for instant news had taken over media reporting and was posing a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to protect the press. But can it pre-judge the evidence before the (trial) court?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Sahara India Real Estate Corp had protested against a news channel&#8217;s reporting of a case involving the company.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Kapadia, other judges on the bench are D.K. Jain, S.S. Nijjar, Ranjana Prakash Desai and J.S. 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The trial court had no power to interdict, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dhawan said that both the normative and institutional remedies should be self regulatory.<\/p>\n<p>When Justice Jain asked about the steps to prevent misreporting, Dhawan said that prohibitive provisions in law were preventive in nature.<\/p>\n<p>The chief justice asked about guidelines that spelt remedies in respect of one-sided reporting by the media.<\/p>\n<p>Kapadia said every day there were reports that were one sided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Thursday advocated balanced reporting of court proceedings, saying reports need to carry views of both sides. &#8220;My personal view is that if the views of both the sides are covered, particularly when one&#8217;s reputation is involved, then many of these problems would not arise,&#8221; Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said. 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