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José Igreja Matos

José Igreja Matos, Court of Appeal (Portugal), is President of the European Association of Judges and First Vice President of the International Association of Judges.

POSTS BY José Igreja Matos

23 April 2021

Anthony Hooper, Tilman Hoppe, José Igreja Matos

To Trust is to Choose

Countries where state institutions are perceived as corrupt all share a similar dilemma: Why should citizens trust a candidate for public office who was selected by a state body which citizens simply don’t trust? In light of this dilemma, Ukraine came up with an innovative mechanism: Giving international experts a decisive role in selecting candidates for public office. Continue reading >>

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23 April 2020

José Igreja Matos

A “Marshall Plan” for Rule of Law in Europe

In the past weeks, the European judges have been confronted in multiple ways by the Covid19 crisis. The challenges for judiciary were exceptional: the willingness to serve our fellow citizens, providing solidarity and support, in times of plague; the duty to supervise, as broadly as permitted by political authorities, the lawfulness of emergency measures; the emergent call to deal with the negative consequences of judicial lockdowns for the efficiency of courts and, moreover, the anxiety arising from the need to look after one’s own health and that of others, in particular witnesses, litigants or other citizens present in court. Continue reading >>

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