Preamble

 

The School of Magistrates of the Republic of Albania, in the application of law no. 115/2016, on the organs of the management of the system of justice, of law no. 96/2016, on the status of judges and prosecutor in the Republic of Albania, of law no. 98/2016, on the organization of the judicial power in the Republic of Albania, of law no. 97/2016, on the organization and the functioning of prosecution in the Republic of Albania, of law no. 84/2016, on the transitory re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors in the Republic of Albania, accomplishes its activity to provide the professional formation of magistrates in these directions: in the recruitment and initial formation of candidates for magistrate, for positions of State Advocacy, for legal assistants and for chancellors at courts and prosecution offices; in the continuous professional formation of magistrates on duty, of state advocates on duty, of legal assistants and chancellors on duty, at courts and prosecution offices, as well as of other legal professions; in the publication and scientific research. 

In the process of the transitory re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors, the activity of the School of Magistrates is oriented in the direction of: the realization of the test for legal advisors of the Constitutional Court, legal assistants of the High Court, Administrative Court, as well as legal assistants at General Prosecution, who are not magistrates, as well as for former legal advisors at the Constitutional Court and at the High Court, of three years of work experience; the realization of the process of Initial Formation, through the attendance of a two-year education program; the realization of the process of Initial Formation, through the attendance of one-year education program, for judges and prosecutors on duty, who do not pass the system of professional re-evaluation; the realization of the test for former judges and former prosecutors who want to enter the system, for which there are no evaluation reports for their professional capacities. 

Subjects participating in the activity of the School of Magistrates of the Republic of Albania face every day actions, behaviors, attitudes, orders, decisions, which apart from the legal aspect, have also ethical and moral implications, as well as have to do with matters of high public interest. The public demands a School of Magistrates with legitimate decision-making, with quality service, open, accessible and properly run. In order to ensure public trust in the integrity of the School of Magistrates of the Republic of Albania, is drafted this Code of Ethics, which is conceived as an instrument to encourage the continuous improvement of the attitudes and behaviors towards higher standards of management and re-dimensioning of common morality in the field of initial and continuous education of magistrates. This act is the framework of the daily activity of subjects to whom it is addressed as long as they perform activities in and out of the auditoriums of the School of Magistrates, orienting their attitude to the public interest as a whole and to our institution in particular.