Effect of Media and Press on Criminal Decisions of Judges and Enforcement of Judgments Based on Justice

Subject Areas : Media Management

Vahideh Tarzaminezhad ¹ , Shahram Jamshidi ²

1 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اراک
2 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد حقوق جزا، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اراک

Received: 2014-09-05 Accepted : 2014-12-05 Published : 2014-10-23

Keywords: media, Impartiality, The Judiciary, Judicial Independence, Independence of Judge, International Documents,

Abstract :

The Judiciary and Justice Administration as authority dealing with litigations and complaints (against justice) of people and authority for dealing with people’s legal and criminal complaints and disputes has a very important position in Iranian legal system similar to the most countries and benefitting from justly, independent proceeding system and competent justice along with criteria and norms of human rights for dealing with litigations will realize justly proceeding and judicial justice. For this purpose, main object of the judiciary is preserving the judicial independence and attention to legal fundamentals and principles in procedural law based on impartiality principle that sometimes faces problems as executor of justice for justifying its performance, actions, plans and programs as well as execution of judgments of accused, in media space-makings. In this connection, essentially, this question is propounded that “if media and press affects independence of the judiciary and enforcement of judgments based on justice?” For its prediction, data was collected based on descriptive-analytical method using library references as noting. Results indicated that damaging the judicial independence and judging in some cases is made by media space-makings.