On July 31, 2008, the presentation of books, regarding the court ethics, was held at the Supreme Court within the frameworks of ABA and the Supreme Court. This event was opened by Konstantine Kublashvili, the Chairman of the Supreme Court. He talked about the significances of court ethics. As Konstantine Kublashvili stated: “Even the fully improved and democratic law can’t guarantee independence and impartiality of a judge, if it’s not the personal demand. Besides expert of codes, judges have to perform great service for public with their style of life. The public has its opinion about independence and impartiality of judge pursuant to his/her action at court and out of the courts as well. Judges are indivisible parts of the system of justice and responsible to preserve the commensurate duty of judge and strengthen the confidence of the justice by the help of the above mentioned”.
The commentaries of court ethics had been worked out within the initiative and framework of Lawyers Association Rule of Law and the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The court ethics will give the additional chance to public to estimate the action of judge, which will increase the essence of court ethics for judges and for society as well.
Court ethics are the regulation of issues which are not directly envisaged by law, such as: judge action during the non-court action, in private life or public service and etc. These kind of problems are aroused in every democratic countries. Our court ethic meets the standards of Euro Council and UNDP.
The representatives of Georgian and foreign non-governmental organizations attended the presentation of books. At the end of the presentation the judges were granted with Ethic Codes.