On 16 February 2022, the Supreme Court in UK ruled against Bloomberg News in a landmark privacy case. The decision of the highest court stated that a person under a criminal investigation has a reasonable expectation of privacy before they are charged which effectively confirmed the ‘general rule’ of pre-charge anonymity. In its ruling, the Supreme […]
The ARISA Newsletter is a periodic bulletin offering information on recent developments related to the media coverage of criminal cases and its impact on suspects and accused persons. The January issue of the newsletter presents the latest publications produced under the ARISA-2 project. Communication guidelines were developed to assist criminal justice authorities to properly communicate […]
The new ARISA Newsletter is a periodic bulletin offering information on recent developments related to the media coverage of criminal cases and its impact on suspects and accused persons. The December issue of the newsletter presents the latest reports produced under the ARISA-2 project. A case study report examines twelve case studies and aims […]
Media coverage of crime-related topics, especially when they regard heinous crimes, is often a tricky issue. On the one hand, there is the curiosity of the public, which is often triggered by the media that provides in-depth details of the facts, as if to present a horror fiction. On the other hand, there are […]
The main objective of the present guidelines is to assist judges, prosecutors, police officers and lawyers to properly communicate information about ongoing criminal cases to the media or online on their websites, and thus to prevent them from violating the presumption of innocence of the suspects and accused. The guidelines include a brief introductory […]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the presumption of innocence had been violated with comments by Ivan Geshev (the then Deputy Chief Prosecutor and Head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office) and the supervising prosecutor in the case, Maria Doycheva. The ECtHR commented on a statement by Geshev and Doycheva made at a press […]
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