THE TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION FROM THE JUDICIAL POWER. THE PRESS OFFICES

The exercise of the jurisdictional activity, as any other public power, demands, within a democratic system, a high level of transparency; the article analyzes the different ways through which the relation between the mass media and judicial organs can settle down. The flow of information derived from judicial organs must articulate through stable instruments, constituted to such aim, at sight of the diverse disadvantages that presents the information facilitated personal and directly by the judges. The study describes the process of creation and establishment of the Press Offices in the scope of the Courts of Justice, the advantages and disadvantages that its establishment supposes, as well as its nature, functions and structure. These organs receive a positive valuation in the measurement in which they suppose the establishment of an institutionalized channel, a trustworthy official source, through as the means can have access of direct and regular form to the set of the news that generates the activity of the judicial organs. And what is more important, it allows to a universal access in conditions of equality avoiding the existence of privileged channels of information.