Ethical requirements for judges: a comparison of assessment of the court of honour and courts

The master's thesis analyses the ethical requirements for judges and their application in court decisions. The structure of the work consists of three main parts. The first part studies ethics in the general sense, discusses its relationship with legal and moral provisions, and then move on to the analysis of indications of professional ethics. In this way, it is desirable to reveal the transformation of general perceived ethics into a legal, professional ethics. The second part focuses on the processes of regulation and implementation of ethical requirements for judges in Lithuania, identifies the competence of judicial self-government institutions in ensuring the functioning of the mechanism of disciplinary liability for judges, discusses the main principles of judges' behavior, their importance in professional activity and in action which is not related to the direct duties. The last, third part of the work summarizes the research carried out in relation to the assessment of ethical requirements in court decisions. This part focuses on the main subject matter – judgments of the Court of Honor in the period from 2013 to 2017, further analyzes the decisions of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, decisions and rulings of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania. It also examines public assessments of the ethics of judges, which enable to estimate the status of society reliance on the judiciary and encourage to search for measures that could contribute in order to increase the public reliance on the courts