JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE VS. BINDING PRECEDENT: A MISLEADING OBJECTION
This paper revisits the notion of judicial independence and its relationship with binding precedent in Ibero-America, with specialemphasis on the Argentinian and Brazilian legal systems. It evidences the prevalence of an idea of judicial independence as a guarantee for the judge instead of...
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Facultad de Derecho
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refade/article/view/35483 |
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| Sumario: | This paper revisits the notion of judicial independence and its relationship with binding precedent in Ibero-America, with specialemphasis on the Argentinian and Brazilian legal systems. It evidences the prevalence of an idea of judicial independence as a guarantee for the judge instead of a guarantee for the parties, and states that such misconception causes an unfounded opposition to precedent. The work proposes a notion of judicial independence developed from the analysis of its essence and purpose. That proposition is inspired by principles contained in the “Código Modelo Iberoamericano de Ética Judicial” and the “Estatuto del Juez Iberoamericano”, both develo - ped during the Ibero-American Judicial Summit. Those documents put parties in the core of the judicial process and conceives them as the reason for judicial independence. Such perspective removes any opposition between judicial independence and respect for what it has been decided in similar previous cases. |
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