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404. The highest standards

By Joel Jacobsen

The last post described the crisis in Slovakia's judiciary, where ethical charges are being imposed to punish politically inconvenient judges.  The purge is being carried out by the Justice Minister of the governing coalition, which includes an explicitly racist party.  It was easy to compare the Justice Minister, Štefan Harabin, to a Stalinist thug, since he looks the very porcine picture of one.  Give him a hat and he's ready to watch a parade.  But of course I was being ironic.  Slovakia's use of judicial discipline to punish political crimes is a testament to how far it's come.  Defining disloyalty to a superior judge as "unethical" is, of course, a characteristic shared by all judiciaries in developed countries...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on November 09, 2009 (boomark / email).