Providing information to media in particular stage of the
criminal proceedings

     This essay should make an excursion to the problem of
providing information to news media, all in the criminal
procedure. This problem is very extensive, so that this work is
a brief compendium only. It should bring basic list of rules,
which are important for this section of justice.
     Providing information to the news media is particularly
enacted  in many laws in the Czech Republic. The main rules -
just like in most of  democratic states - are enacted by law of
„Ústava České republiky“ - The Constitution of the Czech
Republic, and The Declaration of the Basic Rights, like
constitutional law.
     We can divide providing information in accordance with
actual stage of the criminal proceedings. It is pre-trial and
trial mainly. Important law is the Rule of Criminal Procedure
(Rule No. 141/1961 Sb.), and especially its § 8a. This article
says, that authorities of criminal procedure (police, public
prosecutor, law court) must provide information of their
activity to public. But they mustn´t cause danger of
explanation of important facts, and mustn´t make public facts,
which are not in connection with criminal activity. And they
must keep the principle of presumption of innocence, of course.
     Other chapter of the essay says, that authorities of
criminal procedure provide information for news media in
accordance with various rules - for example Rule No. 6/2002
Sb., about the law courts and the judges, Rule No. 283/1993
Sb., about the public prosecutory or Rule No. 283/1991 Sb.,
about the Police of the Czech Republic, and many other.