Disciplining Judges

Contemporary Challenges and Controversies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Globally, countries are faced with a complex act of statecraft: how to design and defensible complaints and discipline regime. In this collection, contributors provide critical analyses of judicial complaints and discipline systems in thirteen diverse jurisdictions, revealing that an effective and legitimate regime requires the nuanced calibration of numerous public values including independence, accountability, impartiality, fairness, reasoned justification, transparency, representation, and efficiency.The jurisdictions examined are Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, England and Wales, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, and the United States. The core findings are four-fold. First, the norms and practices of each discipline regime differ in ways that reflect distinct social, political, and cultural contexts. Second, some jurisdictions are doing better than others in responding to challenges of designing a nuanced and normatively defensible regime. Third, no jurisdiction has yet managed to construct a regime that can be said to adequately promote public confidence. Finally, important lessons can be learned through analysis of, and critically constructive engagement with, other jurisdictions.The first comprehensive comparative collection on judicial discipline systems, Disciplining Judges, will inspire new conversations among academics, students, judges, governmental officials and political scientists.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781789902365

Utforska kategorier

Rättsordning inom Juridik
Juristyrken inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Edited by Richard Devlin, FRSC, Professor and Acting Dean and Sheila Wildeman, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada

Recensioner i media

’Disciplining Judges represents a new and important contribution to the fields of Public Law and judicial studies. It positions judicial discipline as an essential component of constitutionalism and the rule of law. This marvellous collection of diverse essays probes the shifting power dynamics through which the judicial, executive and legislative branches interact.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1 Introduction: Disciplining judges – exercising statecraft 1Richard Devlin and Sheila Wildeman2 Regulation of judicial misconduct in Australia: why, howand where next? 23Suzanne Le Mire3 The Canadian Judicial Council’s (elusive) quest for legitimacy 49Richard Devlin and Sheila Wildeman4 The long march to professionalizing judicial discipline in China 78Susan Finder5 Fighting with the ghosts of the past: the discipline processfor judges in Croatian law 107Dubravka Aksamovic and Sanja Mišević6 Judicial conduct, complaints and discipline in England andWales: assessing the new approach 130Graham Gee7 ‘Belling the cat’: judicial discipline in India 155Tony George Puthucherril8 Why is the complaints procedure still lacking in Italy? Thedifficult pathway towards a more transparent, inclusive andeffective disciplinary system 179Daniela Cavallini9 Shifting the balance: public perspective and the Japanesejudicial discipline process 204Sarah M R Cravens10 Disciplinary control of judges in the Netherlands:a vulnerable system 225Jonathan E Soeharno11 The politics of regulating and disciplining judges in Nigeria 254Olabisi D Akinkugbe12 Weaponizing judicial discipline: Poland 278Fryderyk Zoll and Leah Wortham13 Judge and be judged: judicial discipline in South Africa 308Hugh Corder and Calli Solik14 Legal process theory and judicial discipline in the United States 334Dmitry BamIndex