Publication of decisions issued by disciplinary bodies – prevention of disciplinary misdemeanours
In preventing disciplinary misdemeanours committed by judges, it is vital that they have a prior consistent and unequivocal understanding of which actions of theirs may constitute a disciplinary misdemeanour. Enabling judges to have public access to the decisions of the disciplinary bodies of the High Judicial Council (“the Council”) in order to be informed on the examples of sanctioned behaviours, i.e. which types of behaviour constitute actions which may be prosecuted in disciplinary proceedings, is among the measures used to prevent misdemeanours, which have been recognised and recommended by the EU. This would help judges to avoid proceedings which may lead to their being held liable for breach of discipline, but this would also increase the transparency of the Council’s work. For these reasons in particular the Project will offer the necessary support to the Council to publish its decisions.