Controls of Investigation and Procedures for Disciplining Judges in Light of the Jordanian Judicial Independence Law

Abstract

The current study includes  a discussion of how to conduct the disciplinary accountability of a judge when committing a disciplinary violation, especially with regard to investigation procedures,  steps, and controls, the body in charge of following up and supervising it, the results that follow from the investigation and how to deal with them, the possible penalties that can be imposed on the judge, and how to conduct the disciplinary trial before the Judicial Disciplinary Council.

The study concludes with a set of results, the most prominent of which are the presence of deficiencies in the Judicial Independence Law and its amendments No.29 of 2014, especially with regard to procedures of investigation and referring to the texts of civil service system and activating its rules in such cases. The study recommends addressing some of the deficiencies, especially canceling the text that includes a return to the civil service system because there are disagreements and a big difference between the disciplinary procedures of the public employee and the judge.