Sit with editors, discuss guidelines: Guild to SC

Urging the Supreme Court to refrain from laying down any guidelines on court reporting, the Editors Guild of India on Tuesday suggested the apex court call editors for discussing the issue. Senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Guild, said the court should refrain from laying down any guidelines for reporting of sub-judice matters because it would imperil free speech as there is "not a sufficiently rich jurisprudence to balance media rights." Instead, it suggested there was a need for the court on its administrative side to sit with the editors for discussing the guidelines.