Moral Choice and Responsibility in Professional Conduct of Judges

• Main Author: Tatyana Aleksandrovna Ladykina
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Omsk Law Academy 2011-12-01
• Series: Сибирское юридическое обозрение
• Subjects: <i>moral choice</i>; <i>responsibility</i>; <i>law professional ethics</i>; <i>honor code of the judge of russian federation</i>; <i>correlation between means and ends in professional conduct of law enforcement agents</i>; <i>humanism</i>; <i>justice</i>
• Online Access: https://www.siberianlawreview.ru/jour/article/view/995
• ISSN: 2658-7602; 2658-7610

The article is concerned with philosophical concepts of freedom and responsibility. The authors is focused on judicial ethical code, namely to the problem of moral choice and responsibility of judges. Approaches to understanding of the role of the court in the society. Such moral qualities of a judge as humanism, justice, honesty allow for making the right choice: to achieve a goal, one should use only legitimate means.