FORMATION OF JUDGE'S INTERNAL CONVICTIONS BASED ON INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY

Abstract

The judge’s internal conviction is an important factor influencing the adoption of a lawful, substantiated and fair decision in a criminal proceeding. Ukraine is conducting reforms aimed at improving the quality of justice and restoring confidence in the judiciary. However, the legislation has not yet created sufficient conditions under which all factors that adversely affect the judge’s internal convictions are eliminated. Among them, such as: the system of judges selection, their disciplinary responsibility and one of the important factors, in our opinion, are the moral qualities of a judge. In the laws and by-laws, this factor is not given enough attention. Therefore, the legislation should be brought into such a situation that, at the stage of selection of candidates for the position of judge, as well as in the process of conducting justice, the positions of judges wrich couduct criminal procecdings were those with high moral qualities and high degree of public confidence.