BJA standpoints
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Letter to the Bulgarian Prime Minister
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Declaration regarding the Bill amending and supplementing the Judiciary Act dated 04.07.2017
"...The Bill submitted to the Bulgarian Parliament hinders the free association of magistrates in professional organisations while at the same time prohibiting them from sitting on the governing boards of organisations jointly established with representatives of other legal professions, such as the Bulgarian Union of Jurists. There is hardly any need to put forth arguments demonstrating the self-evident absurdity of such a statutory prohibition..."
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Conducting checks to ascertain a magistrate’s integrity and the absence of conflict of interest
Letter to the Head of the Inspection service of the Supreme Judicial Council regarding the rules of conducting checks to ascertain a magistrate’s integrity and the absence of conflict of interest.
"... We further request the ISSJC to draw up and publish the standard, which it intends to apply in cases that call for conducting integrity checks to ascertain actions that harm the reputation of the judiciary or checks that compromise the independence of judges, prosecutors and investigators. A failure to do so would mean that the approach followed may not be based on principles and considerations deriving from those principles, but on the personality of a magistrate, which opens the doors to inadmissible arbitrariness."
Open Letter regarding the situation in Turkey
The Managing Board of the Bulgarian Judges Association
Open Letter to the European Commission regarding the latest developments in Bulgaria’s progress
Letter to the all members of the XLII National Assembly regarding the nomination of the General Inspector
"... it is important to reiterate that the three-day time period for candidate nomination envisaged in the procedural rules, particularly when coinciding with the Christmas and New Year holiday period, creates an impression of opaqueness. Furthermore, even if discussions between the political parties represented in Parliament had taken place on the need to reform the Inspection Service of the judiciary and on the particularly high professional standards, which the selected nominee must satisfy given the nature of the high judicial office, the debate surrounding the selection process has yet again remained outside public scrutiny..."
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