JUDGES’ ASSOCIATIONS AND TRADE UNIONS – INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND SELECTED NATIONAL PRACTICES
JUDGES’ ASSOCIATIONS AND TRADE UNIONS – INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND SELECTED NATIONAL PRACTICES

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present international standards and their implementationin the national legislations in European countries regarding judges’ right to association with special regard to judges’ right to unionise.Authors hypothesise that although not strictly envisaged in any of the hard lawsources, there is a plethora of soft-law instruments to assert this right. Consequently, theauthors conclude that there is nothing in the relevant international standards that a prioriprevents judges from unionising. Additionally, they posit that judges benefit from collective workers’ rights generally linked to the trade unions through activities of judges’ association,even in cases where judges are explicitly prohibited from joining and forming tradeunions. The latter assertion is supported by a comparative overview of practices in selected European countries.

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