Sub Judice and Free Speech: Balancing the Right to a Fair Trial Against Freedom of Expression in Israel

Over the past few years, a relatively large number of cases have arisen in Israel, in which media publications have allegedly influenced criminal proceedings. The Supreme Court of Israel has issued a number of inconsistent decisions regarding such publications. In this Article, we will study the sub judice prohibition, analyze the concern of undue influence of media publications in criminal cases in light of contemporary behavioral literature, discuss the various approaches found in contemporary Israeli case law, and propose a new and better model

Court’s Precious Time: Transparency, Honor and Judicial Scarce Resources

While many judicial systems in the Western World are coping with a shortage of judges, the public is not always aware of the overload and its reasons. Our claim is that the reason for this, is the fact that the judicial system preferred to preserve an ideal image of the judiciary and control all information about it, rather than to publicize the judicial overload problem. In this paper, we aim to show that until recently, the issue of &ldquo;judicial overload&rdquo; was hidden from the public eye. We deal with the importance and advantageous of presenting the relevant facts to the public. We shall empirically show, that the judicial system has begun to legitimize the exposure of judicial overload to the public.Si bien es cierto que muchos sistemas judiciales del mundo occidental est&aacute;n lidiando con la escasez de jueces, tambi&eacute;n lo es que el p&uacute;blico no siempre es consciente de la sobrecarga de trabajo y de sus razones. Nosotros afirmamos que la raz&oacute;n de ello es que el sistema judicial ha preferido preservar una imagen ideal de la judicatura y controlar toda la informaci&oacute;n acerca de ella antes que hacer p&uacute;blico el problema de la sobrecarga de trabajo de los jueces. En este art&iacute;culo, pretendemos mostrar que, hasta hace poco, la cuesti&oacute;n de la "sobrecarga de los jueces" ha permanecido oculta a ojos del p&uacute;blico. Tratamos el tema de la importancia y la ventaja que supone presentar los hechos relevantes al p&uacute;blico, y demostraremos emp&iacute;ricamente que el sistema judicial ha comenzado a aprobar la exposici&oacute;n de la sobrecarga judicial al p&uacute;blico. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3039584</a