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THE BANGALORE PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT 2002 (The Bangalore Draft Code of Judicial Conduct 2001 adopted by the Judicial Group on Strengthening Judicial Integrity, as revised at the Round Table Meeting of Chief Justices held at the Peace Palace, The Hague, November 25-26, 2002)
WHEREAS, the Bangalore Draft is founded upon a universal recognition that a competent, independent and impartial judiciary is essential if the courts are to fulfill their role in upholding constitutionalism and the rule of law; that public confidence in the judicial system and in the moral authority and integrity of the judiciary is of utmost ...
Recalling the second meeting of the Judicial Group on Strengthening Judicial Integrity, held in 2001 in Bangalore, India, at which the chief justices recognized the need for universally acceptable stand-ards of judicial integrity and drafted the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct,5.
This New Code of Judicial Conduct for the Philippine Judiciary shall take effect on the first day of June 2004, following its publication not later than 15 May 2004 in two newspapers of large circulation in the Philippines to ensure its widest publicity. Promulgated this 27th day of April 2004. HILARIO G. DAVIDE, JR.
1) The document adopts a new Code of Judicial Conduct for the Philippine judiciary based on a universal declaration of standards. 2) The canons in the Code emphasize the importance of judicial independence, integrity, impartiality, and propriety.
The Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct are standards for ethical conduct of judges. [1] The six core values are: The Bangalore Code of Judicial Conduct was drafted in 2001 for the Judicial Group on Strengthening Judicial Integrity and presented to the Round Table Meeting of Chief Justices in November 2002. [3]
A detailed draft commentary was prepared on each of the Bangalore Principles and discussed in depth, together with the Principles, at the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting on Strengthening Basic
