Duty to the court and the administration of justice : some examples, implications and clarifications

No liberal democracy can survive without popular trust in its judicial system. The legal profession and the judiciary enjoy a level of independence and autonomy from the executive that makes them both powerful and privileged. A UNIQUE AND ORGANIC DUTY: So long as the courts are seen to fulfil their duty to guard against encroachments by the executive on the freedoms and rights of individual citizens with integrity and credibility, they maintain enough public support to retain their normative authority. But support for those with power and privilege is easily undermined. It is contingent upon trust. Lawyers who breach that trust in ways that go to the heart of the legal system ought to expect to be made examples of and to suffer severe penalties. The good news is that the sorts of breach discussed here should be neither difficult to anticipate nor to avoid – in theory. In practice, smart and honest lawyers sometimes fall foul of these duties for all sorts of understandable (if not condonable) reasons. Law does not get practised in a social or cultural vacuum. Lawyers are people, and people have weaknesses, failings and stresses...

Mexican Americans and the administration of justice in the Southwest /

"March 1970."

Under the rule of thumb : battered women and the administration of justice /

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Legal Services Corporation [microform] : activities of the chairman and replacement of the president : hearing before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, August 4, 1988.

"Serial no. 106."

Improving the administration of justice by authorizing the Judicial Conference of the United States to establish institutes and joint councils on sentencing, to provide additional methods of sentencing ... : report [to accompany H.J. Res. 424]

Submitted by Mr. Willis, and ordered to be printed, June 23, 1958.

The administration of justice in Latin America.

Bibliography: p. [143]-156.

The Federal role in the administration of justice : hearing held in Washington, D.C., September 16-17, 1980.

At head of title: Hearing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

"The Red River Rebellion:" the cause of it. : In a series of letters to the British government on the importance of opening the overland route through Rupert's America, from Canada to British Columbia, for the introduction of means for the administration of justice therein; the promotion of emigration; and earnest appeals to stay bloodshed in the Red River Settlement, by extending righteous rule to that country. /

Mode of access: Internet.