"judicial office" refers to a role or position in the legal system that involves making decisions, interpreting laws, and ensuring justice is served. This can include judges, magistrates, and other officials who work in courts or tribunals. Their main responsibility is to make fair and impartial judgments based on the law.
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A judge should avoid lending the prestige
of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others.
The court found that the candidate intended to run
for judicial office in a future election, just not the next election.
This Section applies to any statement made in the process of
securing judicial office, such as statements to commissions charged with judicial selection and tenure and legislative bodies confirming appointment.
I accept that
judicial office holders must not use their judicial status improperly, and should not, by identifying themselves as a judge inadvertently identify an individual case.
I acknowledge that wearing the hat was a breach of the principles
of judicial office and was a lapse in judgment that I sincerely regret.
Even though some judges may be men or women of moral wisdom, there is no particular correlation between having that wisdom and
holding judicial office.
However, more than half the respondents said they would consider
judicial office if they could work part - time, while some 13 % of black and minority ethnic (BME) respondents said they were «very likely» to apply in future.
[A] judge of any court shall retire from
judicial office at the end of the calendar year in which he attains the age of 75 years.
In the Canadian Judicial Council Report into the Conduct of the Honourable P. Theodore Matlow (2008)[Matlow Report] the question asked, at para. 166, was whether «public confidence in the judge is sufficiently undermined to render him or her incapable of
executing judicial office in the future in light of his or her conduct to date.»
An upstate New York judge is being forced to step down from the bench and never
seek judicial office again after conducting a months - long, public tirade against his ex-girlfriend.
2010): A candidate for
judicial office brought an action challenging several canons of the Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct.
Eight advisory opinions were issued, and the staff authored three ethics guides on the subjects of succession planning for lawyers and law firms, the ethical obligations of lawyers who are changing law firms, and considerations for lawyers who are leaving the practice of law to
take judicial office.
This includes candidates facing active opposition in a merit retention election for the same
judicial office campaigning together and conducting a joint campaign designed to educate the public on merit retention and each candidate's views as to why he or she should be retained in office, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by Florida law.
What made HB 3979 as amended interesting is what the amendment includes (text here): an exemption to the existing one - year - wait rule if the office being sought is «an at -
large judicial office.»
During her time in
judicial office Judge Macken presided over or was a member of the formation in many seminal cases involving a wide range of legal issue, at European and national level, including in the areas of the environment (waste, water, special areas of conservation), free movement, intellectual property, regulatory control, telecommunications, privacy and data protection, the European Arrest Warrant, and in a broad range of constitutional and EU Treaty matters.
«This is one of the risks of people who have held
judicial office becoming involved in partisan politics,» says Emmett Macfarlane, a professor at the University of Waterloo, of the Conservative attacks on B.C. NDP candidate Carol Baird Ellan.
A hearing is likely to take place on Dec. 11, a spokesman at Britain's
Judicial Office told Reuters.
The state Commission on Judicial Conduct announced Christopher C. Clarkin, a justice of the Floyd Town Court, and associate justice of the Oriskany and Whitesboro Village Courts, Oneida County, will resign from office effective Dec. 31, and agreed never to seek or
accept judicial office in the future.
Like many others who might be reading this for the first time, I too found these machinations for high
judicial office distasteful, maybe even sleazy.
He said: «Miss Constance Briscoe, a recorder and fee - paid tribunal judge of the first - tier health, education and social care chamber, has been removed from
judicial office without further investigation by the lord chancellor and the lord chief justice following her conviction and sentence for perverting the course of justice.
A centralized panel of federal administrative judges with adequate judicial tenure could generate substantial cost savings compared to the cost of operating
separate judicial offices in the various federal agencies and subagencies.
All merit selection systems for
judicial offices require that the commission that recommends names include a mix of lawyers and non-lawyers.
But at other times, such as this time, the gowns of
judicial office enabled this judge to lose sight, however momentary, of the public he served and, in that moment, we were all diminished.
In Defense of Florida's Flat Ban on the Personal Solicitation of Campaign Contributions From Attorneys by Candidates for
Judicial Office PDF · Burt Neuborne · 68 Vand.
A candidate for
judicial office wished to endorse other candidates for public office, as well as personally solicit funds for his own campaign and challenged the constitutionality of the amended provisions.
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, candidates for nonpartisan offices,
including judicial offices, must be nominated and elected according to the provisions of this title.
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