Strengthen the judiciary's independence in Europe!
Subtitle: international recommendations for an independent judicial power
By: Peter-Alexis Albrecht, Sir John Thomas (eds.) ; in cooperation with: European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) ... [et al.].
Contributors: European Network of Councils for the Judiciary
Publisher: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag; Intersentia N. V.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; Antwerpen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9789050959711; 9783830517016
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Expectations to strengthen judicial independence. Could an independent judiciary be a counterbalance to the erosion of European Principles of Criminal Law? / Peter-Alexis Albrecht; title: German constitutional expectations / Thomas Gross; title: Autonomy for the judiciary - political expectations / Till Steffen. 2. European trends and constitutional framework for judicial self-governance. Following European trends: challenges and choices to be made / Eric Alt; title: Self-government and constitutional law: the Italian experience / Giovanni Salvi; title: Political power and judicial power: the Portuguese model / Orlando Afonso 3. Models of judicial self-governance. Some perspectives on Councils for the Judiciary / John Thomas; title: Practical experiences of a self-governed judiciary: the Spanish model / Joaquin Bayo-Delgado; title: Judicial self-governance: a role model for Germany / Christoph Frank; title: Self-governance within the courts: vertical versus horizontal / Horst Haeuser; title: Away from Napoleonic and Whilhelminian Models, to a democratic organization of the courts for Germany / Hans-Ernst Boettcher. 4. The organization of judicial self-governance: selection, assessment and promotion. The Italian system of 'Open Roles': assessments within autonomous career structures in a self-governed judiciary / Giovanni Salvi; title: Neither fear nor hope - personal and structural conditions of a self-governed judiciary / Carsten Loebbert; title: De-hierarchization of personnel administration: various reform possibilities with the German judiciary / Edgar Isermann. 5. The role played by the Public Prosecutor's Office within a self-governed judiciary. Autonomy and self-governance of the Portuguese Public Prosecutor's Office / António Cluny; title: The German Public Prosecutor's Office: a political marionette?: a need for independence! / Klaus Pfoertner; title: Emancipation of the Public Prosecutor's Office as a contribution to judicial independence / Gerhard Altvater. 6. A code of conduct as a means of limitation the judicial gain in power. Is there any place for ethics?: implementing the deontological code of judges and prosecutors in Romania / Ion Copoeru; title: Ethics of judicial behavior / Elisabeth Kreth; title: The specter of 'judicial ethics' / Ulrich Baltzer. Final remarks. European images of justice - the need for perspectives of judicial control / Stefan Braum.