Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1978
ISSN
0021-2237
Publisher
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the beginning, use of the Press Ordinance (hereafter Pr. Ord.) was limited, but as British political control deteriorated it became more extensive and even ruthless. In 1937, the Peel Report complained that the Pr. Ord. was not tough enough and recommended stricter measures.3 At about the same time, the Mandatory Government itself reached the conclusion that the Pr. Ord. was insufficient and issued a series of Defence (Emergency) Regulations which suspended the entire range of civil liberties-including freedom of expression. These Defence (Emergency) Regulations which related to the press replaced in part and fortified in part the Pr. Ord. in order to give the Government more control over newspapers in Palestine.
In Part I of this essay we delineated the basic design of the Pr. Ord. and discussed its history. 5 We noted that it came to replace the Ottoman Law with a modern statute based on the Cyprus Press Law of 1930. We shall now analyze its 3 major components-licensing, control over contents and sanctions -and their implementation first in Mandatory Palestine and then in contemporary Israel.
Recommended Citation
Pnina Lahav,
Governmental Regulation of the Press: A Study of Israel's Press Ordinance - Part II
,
in
13
Israel Law Review
489
(1978).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2354
Comments
Part 1 can be found here: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2355/