Независимость судебной власти: этика и медиа

Abstract

The image of the judiciary has an independent value characteristic. In the case of the formation of social representations by the judiciary, we are talking about legal meanings, the legal form of perception of reality through the implementation of judicial information policy, the presentation of the judicial community in the public space, the actions of judges and their public assessment by the judicial community itself and the society as a whole. Mediatisation of social space and the judiciary emphasises issues that seem to be related to the private sphere of a judge’s life – that is, his participation in social networks. The society is interested in the ethics of a judge from the point of view of the possibility of making higher demands to the bearer of power. But to what extent it is justified and whether ethics in general changes in the postmodern society are questions, the answers to which may affect the further development of the judiciary as an institution and its legitimisation in society.