The Study Of The Conflict And Balance Between Media And Judicial Independence

The relationship between media and judicature involves at least two important value of social life, which is the freedom of the press and judicial independence. The relationship between media and judicature is not only a common problem in the national media and judicial affairs, and also can be sublimated into the core of a country under the rule of constitutionalism. Media supervision and judicial independence should be parallel, the conflict between the two are not irreconcilable. The judiciary should behoove to accept the supervision of the media, and to respond to the media. Judicial independence should find defects from the judicial system itself, rather than from targeting media. In the current media environment, media need to open further, media supervision is conducive to promoting judicial reform, and it also is the important support and guarantee to the independence of the judiciary.The judicial independence means that courts and judges must take the law as the top management principles, they are not subject to interference by any other state organs, organizations and individuals. Its significance lies in that the judicial independence is the principle of judicial justice to resolve the dispute problems for people. Its international standard is the independence of judicial power and the independence of judges.The media supervision mainly refers to media supervise judicial activities. The positive role of media supervising judicature is curbing judicial corruption, promoting judicial openness, ensuring human rights and publicizing laws and legal faith. Legal function of media supervising judicature includes the function of legal education, the guidance of public opinion and supervision function, judicial status granted function. The excessive media supervision can cause judicial credibility and can effect the interference of judicial justice.How to balance the relationship between media and justice is the problem caused the most concern. The value of justice and the media is pursuing fairness and justice, media supervising judicature is not only a effective means to prevent the judicial corruption, and also is a right of the media. When we balance the relationship between the media and the judicial, we should pay attention to delimit the media judicial intervention limits, to establish a perfect media supervision environment, and give media supervision a full play role on supervision justice. Justice should be actively cooperate with the supervision of media.