Court television
With Court TV television broadcasts are referred from court hearings.
history
Already in the time of National Socialism there were plans to use the new medium of television for propaganda purposes for the public display of court hearings, especially those before the People's Court . However, this failed because of the technical possibilities at the time.
In the young Federal Republic of Germany, numerous court cases were broadcast publicly on television, including the Ferdinand Schörner and Vera Brühne cases . With the law of December 19, 1964, the legislature forbade audio and television broadcasts from court hearings by inserting sentence 2 of Section 169 (1) of the GVG. The trigger for this is the case against the President of the EEC Commission Walter Hallstein in the context of the " Strack Affair ": Although Hallstein was acquitted in this case, the then director of the Bonn Regional Court , Helmut Quirini , staged the case in such a way that observers of a "TV execution" spoke. On a constitutional complaint of the TV -N-tv said the Federal Constitutional Court in 2000 § 169 1 para. 2 sentence GVG compatible with the Basic Law and the decision turned out extremely tight with five to three judges. Since an amendment to the law in 1998, the Federal Constitutional Court has been able to allow the start of negotiations and the pronouncement of the verdict to be broadcast on television ( Section 17a BVerfGG), which the court has only made use of once (in the constitutional complaint against the Bavarian Abortion Act - 1 BvR 2306/96) .
In other countries, court television is still partly used.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Judicial television : Lights out - Why film recordings were banned in German courts - Tagesspiegel
- ↑ BVerfG, judgment of November 7, 2000, AZ 1 BvR 2623/95, 622/99
- ↑ Modern pillory: In Germany, television broadcasts from the courtrooms are largely prohibited. N-tv complains against it - at least a partial success is likely. - The mirror