| Date: |
May 15 - May 17, 2007 |
| Location: |
TOMSK |
| Partnership Sponsor: |
Massachusetts ~ Rostov-on-Don
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| Summary: |
This seminar in Tomsk focused on courts and the media.
Members of the American delegation covered general presentation on the elements of, and defenses to, defamation claims under United States law. This included a component of ‘business disparagement’ and a comparison of the effect of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on the adjudication of defamation claims in the US with that of the European Convention on Human Rights on the adjudication of defamation claims in Russia.
A brief mock trial was part of the seminar, involving the examination of a journalist and an expert on journalistic ethics in a defamation case.
Other issues concerning the relations between the news media and the courts included:
- Media access to courts and specific types of judicial proceedings.
- Ethical and practical constraints on judges speaking to the media.
- Dueling constitutional considerations of press freedom and the right to a fair trial.
- Impoundment of court documents.
- Cameras in the courtroom.
- Confidentiality considerations in certain types of cases and settlement agreements.
- Court-imposed restraints on the media.
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| Topics: |
Business reputation and slander
Courts and the Media |
| Participants: |  Robert Ambrogi - Attorney & Executive Director of the Mass. Newspaper Publishers Association
Hon. Edward Ginsburg - Founder and Director, Senior Partners for Justice
Joan Kenney - Public Information Officer, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Natasha Lisman - Litigation Partner, Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
Hon. Mary-Lou Rup - Judge, Massachusetts Superior Court
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