Judicial and prosecutorial ethics – standards from a transnational comparative point of view

theme No.: 26d
responsible federal state: Schleswig-Holstein
date: 04.09.2023 - 08.09.2023

The conference addresses judges in all branches of the judiciary as well a public prosecutors.
Judicial and prosecutorial professional ethics are being discussed all over the world, during the last twenty years increasingly also in Europe. Other countries, such as Austria, Italy and Poland, have developed national ethical rules or declarations.
Based on specific examples from foreign countries, the conference aims at informing judges and prosecutors about the state of developments, encouraging them to review their role and ethical standards, discuss specific cases, and strengthen their inner independence. Amongst other, the following questions will be posed:

• Could and should judges and prosecutors in Germany adopt ethical principles for their behavior? If so, in what way should this be done and how could these principles be updated?
• How truly independent am I?
• How do I approach the problem of dealing with an immense workload and still finding the time needed to deal with some specific cases?

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