‘Reporting the Courts’: SANEF’s must-have media guide
The 2022 revised edition of the South African National Editors’ Forum’s (SANEF) 2006 manual, Reporting the Courts, offers extensive guidance for journalists reporting on South Africa’s law and justice system today.
It explains the legal system and the courts, unpacks the work of officials and officers of the courts, explains criminal procedures, civil procedures, commissions of inquiry, punishments, penalties and remedies, and clarifies the meanings of appeals and reviews.
It also gives insight into the nature of crime in the news, media access and the rules of attendance, and reporting and creating court-related content, and has a huge resources and links section.
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