The Code of Hammurabi: Judicial Error
In a time that distributed risk and responsibility directly (1780 BC) and in the first codification of laws designed by man to order society the issue of judicial misconduct was addressed by holding judges accountable for their error.
And accountable meant that if the Judge got it wrong in a written judgment then the penalty was twelve times the amount of the fine levied and the judge would be removed from the bench.
If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement
In a time that distributed risk and responsibility directly (1780 BC) and in the first codification of laws designed by man to order society the issue of judicial misconduct was addressed by holding judges accountable for their error.
And accountable meant that if the Judge got it wrong in a written judgment then the penalty was twelve times the amount of the fine levied and the judge would be removed from the bench.
If a judge try a case, reach a decision, and present his judgment in writing; if later error shall appear in his decision, and it be through his own fault, then he shall pay twelve times the fine set by him in the case, and he shall be publicly removed from the judge's bench, and never again shall he sit there to render judgement
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