Codex: Codex (May 9th, 1998) and Standards of Judicial Ethics (June 30th, 2003) of the Judges Association of Serbia

Associations Acts21.01.2006.

The Code was the first document of JAS intended to become a philosophy and way of life of all judges. The Standards of Judicial Ethics (which is now in force) came later, as a more advanced act of general rules on judicial ethics. All judges of Serbia, aware that, in performing their judicial duties, they decide over life and death, freedom and detention, property and estate, human rights and suffering, truth and lies, the use and abuse of rights, constitutionality and legality, in order to enhance and maintain the dignity of the profession, and accountable for the public trust, hereby adopt these Standards of Professional Conduct to which all judges should aspire in the realization of the universal principles of judicial power – judicial independence, impartiality, justice, rule of law, public confidence in the judiciary and respect for the court.