Sentences with phrase «prestige of judicial office»

«A judge should not lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of others...»

[5] In addition to appointing lawyers to serve as counsel for indigent parties in individual cases, a judge may promote broader access to justice by encouraging lawyers to participate in pro bono publico legal services, if in doing so the judge does not employ coercion, or abuse the prestige of judicial office.

This would prevent judges from åany enticement to lend the prestige of the judicial office to benefit other interests.

(b) Judges should not solicit funds (except from judicial colleagues or for appropriate judicial purposes) or lend the prestige of judicial office to such solicitations.

[119] The prestige of the judicial office is not intended to be used as a vehicle to advance economic, financial, social, political or other interests including a charity's interests.

A judge should avoid lending the prestige of judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others.

Otherwise, a judge should not personally participate in fund - raising activities, solicit funds for any organization, or use or permit the use of the prestige of judicial office for that purpose.

A judge should neither lend the prestige of the judicial office to advance the private interests of the judge or others nor convey or permit others to convey the impression that they are in a special position to influence the judge.

Section 7A (1)(b) prohibits judges and judicial candidates from publicly endorsing or opposing candidates for public office to prevent them from abusing the prestige of judicial office to advance the interests of others.