Preliminary communication
REACTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS TO NEGATIVE CRITICISM ON THEIR DECISIONS
Teodor Antić
; Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia
Abstract
The author considers the issues of necessity and ways of reacting of constitutional courts to possible negative pieces of criticism by the public and mass-media regarding the decisions of the courts. In this sense it has been emphasized that decision to react to negative piece of crticism depends on the content and seriousness of the criticism. The constitutional court surely needs to react properly to serious incorrect and unjustified pieces of criticism and at the same time paying attention not to violate freedom of expression and not to prevent a possibility for a piece of criticism to be expressed. The reply to a piece of criticism is appropriate if the criticism results from lack of comprehension of how the system functions or what the role of constitutional court is or if it is partly based on such lack of comprehension, when the piece of criticism is serious and could have significant negative impact on the society, when it contains wrong items of information or when it is even deceptive. Before reacting to negative piece of criticism, it is necessary to evaluate a series of circumstances which the reaction understanding and effect will depend on.
Keywords
public opinion; constitutional court; negative piece of criticism
Hrčak ID:
134375
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2012.
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