The Pros And Cons Of Judicial Corruption

An effective judiciary has to be an advocate against corruption and assure fairness in legal procedures. Unfortunately, people’s experiences in court are often far from fair. Judges can also bribe or be bribed, or they can suffer pressure from above. If politicians abuse their power, they can influence decisions and mislead courts’ lawful procedures by bribing justices. Judicial corruption endures as a serious barrier to citizen’s right and undermines basic human rights issues such as right to fair trial. In this paper, I am going to look at corruption among white-collar employees (government officials) and how it violates basic human rights. We are going to see how in the Unites States, a country that has checks and balances, corruption is
These instruments primarily include: the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals; the right to a fair trial both in civil and in criminal cases; and equality of all before the law. Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) states the right of individuals to judicial protection as: “Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.” In this respect, the UDHR takes into account the possibility of legal proceedings in any state. The European Convention on Human Rights (1953) does not profoundly pole apart from the UDHR and it declares: “Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by
This was the statement of the lawyers of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, released after the court had found the defendants guilty of creating an organized group in committing crimes in the oil complex of Russia and the crimes of selfish motives for personal gain. Khodorkovsky himself stated that the truth behind his conviction was the retribution for financing political parties that opposed President Putin. He had provided funding to nearly all political parties and was publishing the prestigious “Moskovskiye Novosti” newspaper, which criticized President