(10) How does media reporting risk contempt of court?

Contempt of court — the conduct affronting the court's authority: any act undermining the administration of justice — the court's dignity and authority, and the due process's integrity. The two protected interests: The institution's authority: the judiciary's standing — the public's confidence in the courts as the precondition of their function (scandalising the court's rationale); The process's integrity: the fair trial's protection — the pending case decided in the courtroom on the evidence, not in the media on the mob's sentiment (the sub judice rule's rationale). The concept's location in media law: the media as the classic ex facie contemnor — the outside-court publication that prejudices proceedings or scandalises the bench: the press freedom (Article 19) meeting the contempt power — the balance this unit performs. Nepal's contempt machinery: anchored in the courts' inherent and statutory powers (the Constitution's contempt jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the courts' administration statutes — the contempt authority as the courts' own).