The president of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Cordoba, Argentina, Armando Andruet, described the Code of Ethical Behavior of the Judicial Branch of the Dominican Republic as the best structured and modern in Ibero-America.
The also international director of the "Manuel Ruíz Tejada" Chair of Judicial Ethics, taught by the National School of the Judiciary, said that this Code of Ethical Behavior contributes to curb threats to democracy, the institutional system and fundamental rights.
He pointed out that when a democratic system is affected, the independence, impartiality and integrity of a country's judiciary is also affected. He insisted that judges are the ones who best know the institutional system of a nation, "when, in an underhanded way, this democracy is affected".
Dr. Andruet made this statement when addressing the topic "Ethical Dilemmas in the Judicial Service", a scenario in which he also summarized in just three the 26 principles of judicial ethics, synthesizing them into Independence, Impartiality and Integrity, which he clarified form the ontological core that judges cannot forget.
"Forget all (the other principles), except these three. In the end, judicial ethics is a development of those three principles that make up what I have called the ontological core of judicial ethics," reiterated the Argentinean professor.
He pointed out that the Ibero-American Code of Judicial Ethics reaches 24 Ibero-American and European countries that make up the Ibero-American Judicial Summit, of which the Dominican Republic holds the pro tempore presidency 2023-2025.
He maintained that judges, in their jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional work, must have as their mission to generate and promote public confidence.
In this regard, he pointed out that public confidence in judges is important, since many of them are covered by the idea that their rulings are brilliant and that this generates public confidence.
During his participation in the VI Edition of the Judiciary 2024 Conference, Andruet reiterated that judges cannot live isolated from society, and that "the idea that judges only speak through sentences" is part of a nineteenth-century or past history.