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Friday, September 02, 2011
Courts - "Chief Justice: Courts must use Facebook, Twitter to counter 'skewing of information"
This fascinating look at use of social media is from the Sidney, Australia Morning Herald. A few quotes:
Victorian courts should take advantage of social media such as Twitter and Facebook to better explain themselves to the public, Victoria's most senior judge says.Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Marilyn Warren has raised the prospect of judges tweeting from the Supreme Court in a bid to counter the "skewing of information" by the media.
Chief Justice Warren's comments come as a survey by the Sentencing Advisory Council shows only half of Victorians feel confident that judges are imposing appropriate sentences.
Advertisement: Story continues below"[On Tuesday] I had a discussion with our media people as to how we can ramp up what we do and it will be our intention in the Supreme Court to use technology much more extensively," she told ABC radio.
"I've had a conversation about how we can have an anonymous judge blogging to reach out to the community, how we can use Twitter and how we can use our website in a much more effective way.
"We may have some tweeting from the Supreme Court - it will need to be done probably on an anonymous basis.
"We want to reach out, we want to communicate."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 2, 2011 10:43 AM
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