A judgment procedure of "a trial of" a limited trial "to judge whether judge Fumiaki Okaguchi (52) of the Tokyo High Court should be disciplined on the grounds that it hurt the feelings of the parties in the lawsuit with Twitter will be held on Sunday. Mr. Haruaki Forest Road and Chief Justice High Court alleged "to be disciplined", but Mr. Okaguchi shows a stance of contending as "infringement on freedom of expression". In the era of SNS prosperity, what kind of judgment will the Supreme Court make about Judge's Twitter out?
People who are current judges, who send out real names and send by Twitter are extremely rare. Mr. Okaguchi positively posted judicial precedents and judicial-related news and has been drawing attention. On the other hand, the High Court has posted content of contributions so far, and in June 2016, a woman in Tokyo was killed in March this year on posting photographs of a male naked in rope tied up We are strictly paying attention to each post about the incident. The trial is a formal procedure for disciplining a judge, and it is a form further advanced from attention.
This time, the problem was tweeted this May. Mr. Okaguchi, together with a link on articles on the Internet that took up the trial where the ownership of the dog picked up was in which of the original owner or the person picked up was also "protecting the dog left in the park Then, the original owner gave in the name and "give back" Eh? You posted this dog, do not you think? 3 months left as it is ... ... the result of the trial ... ... ".
Mr. Okaguchi's twitter is currently frozen, but has opened a blog related to the trial decision. According to the document released here and the contents of the Asahi Shimbun, it was reported on May 24 that he was invited to the president of the forest and was protested by the original owner of the dog.
At this time, Minister Hayashi noted that he tweeted without reading the sentence sentence, "We have two strict warnings and we did exactly the same thing only two months have passed since the last strict attention "We will have to take it seriously as the whole court as well and we will consider it including the trial for judgment." "If it is an ordinary judge, if you do all this and trouble the entire court or the parties, He said that he would stop it. The high court says that such interaction actually occurred in the interview of the Asahi newspaper as "It is related to the judgment of the Supreme Court, so I do not want to reply."
Mr. Okaguchi talks about the tweet which was regarded as a problem, "I have a legal issue in the judgment," he said, "I thought it was bad if the parties were angry, I answered Secretary Hayashi for sorry." However, the policy asked to stop Twitter is "infringement of freedom of expression", and "a motion for a limited trial is a means to stop Twitter" is a policy.
The trial for this case is heard at the Supreme Court Ground Court and decides whether to reprimand the act of Mr. Okaguchi by disciplinary action or declare a reprimand or a fines of 10,000 yen or less. In order to support Mr. Okaguchi, lawyers in sync with judicial training form a lawyer and are expected to attend the hearing together with the case.
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