المسؤوليـــة المدنيــة للصحفــــي

Abstract

What better characterizes the journalistic work is the exercise of the right of freedom of expression, otherwise this right isn’t absolute, if the journalist commits an act considered by the law as an error and that later hurts others, he takes the civil responsibility considering that it constituted from an error, nuisance and cause-effect relationship, the responsibility can be either a civil responsibility resulting from a personal act or a responsibility of the journal of the others act knowing that journalist relating to it as a guarantee. The penalty of this responsibility is that the journalist or the journal supports the rate of the compensation fixed by the justice in favor of the victim if the nuisance that attains him due to the journalistic error war material or moral. The compensation can be real manifested by the right of reply or rectification or cash according to the verdict of the justice. That what makes the civil responsibility of the journalist different from the civil responsibility of general conditions.