Judicial Conduct Studentās Name Institutional Affiliation In the course of delivering their mandates, judges and magistrates may face allegations of judicial abuse of power or misconduct. Abuse of power by judges has dire consequences on the capacity of a judge to deliver their mandates and also on the image of the judiciary (Kaczmarek, 2018). When the public lacks confidence in the judiciary, there a need for some form of action from the judge or from the judiciary itself. The judiciary can thus institute a disciplinary action such as judicial disqualification, or the subject judge can recuse themselves from any investigations associated with the case (Appleby & McDonald, 2017). In the...
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