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07-27-2003, 04:42 AM
The conventional school of thought is that the judiciary is insulated from newspapers and press statements. However we also know that members of the judiciary read newspapers, listen to radio and watch TV. Consequently a US judge granted attorney client privlege to a PR firm.
"This case is most significant for what it says about the changing relationship of law to society. Traditionally, the courts of law and of public opinion have been viewed as distinctive arenas. The rationale for life appointments of judges is to insulate them from the ''passions'' of the ''mob.'' The lodestar of prosecutors and defense attorneys is supposed to be statute and precedence.
And jurors are admonished to disregard what they hear or read about a case and, in high-profile cases, may be sequestered from public influence. Of course, this separation has always been more fiction than fact; the world of attorneys has probably always resembled more Atticus Finch than Perry Mason."
This case demonstrates the increasingly greater role that PR must play in judicial skirmishes. Conventional hard copy PR probably will not do it alone, the power of the net must be utilized which has the capablity to reach many different cyber communities.
Read article
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/207/oped/The_thin_line_between_law_and_public_opinion+.shtm l
"This case is most significant for what it says about the changing relationship of law to society. Traditionally, the courts of law and of public opinion have been viewed as distinctive arenas. The rationale for life appointments of judges is to insulate them from the ''passions'' of the ''mob.'' The lodestar of prosecutors and defense attorneys is supposed to be statute and precedence.
And jurors are admonished to disregard what they hear or read about a case and, in high-profile cases, may be sequestered from public influence. Of course, this separation has always been more fiction than fact; the world of attorneys has probably always resembled more Atticus Finch than Perry Mason."
This case demonstrates the increasingly greater role that PR must play in judicial skirmishes. Conventional hard copy PR probably will not do it alone, the power of the net must be utilized which has the capablity to reach many different cyber communities.
Read article
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/207/oped/The_thin_line_between_law_and_public_opinion+.shtm l