Motto: Criticism of the judge by others:
Members of the public, of the legislature, and of the executive, may comment publicly concerning what they may view to be the limitations, faults or errors of a judge and his or her judgments. (…)As has been observed, ‘justice is not a cloistered virtue: she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even if outspoken, comments of ordinary men’. (Commentary on the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct, The Judicial Integrity Group, March 2007, commentary 137, p. 90) (2)
As regular voters with no judicial expertise, we wish to respectfully express our opinion on the manner the referendum in Romania was managed from the judicial point of view. It is our hope that these observations will be taken into account and given the rightful consideration as the independency, impartiality, and integrity of justice cannot exist solely as reported to a government or political faction, but must be perceived as such by ordinary men. (more…)