Regulation of Judicial Misconduct from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Michael H. Hoeflich
In a well-known chapter in the book known as Mirror of Justices , anonymous author recounts King Alfred's drastic solution to problem misbehaving judges: It is an abuse that justices and their officers who slay folk by false judgments are not destroyed like other homicides. And Alfred one year had forty-four judges hanged homicides for judgments. Unfortunately, Maitland has conclusively demonstrated, we cannot rely on this passage historical evidence reign. Nevertheless, illustrates both common Roman medieval periods. The was judicial misconduct corruption. impose personal liability upon miscreant behavior.
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