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Coping with Threema: How do Lawyers Perceive Their Biggest Corruption
Scandal?
Mgr. Lucia Berdisová,
PhD., LL.M., Institute of State and Law of Slovak
Academy of Sciences
Mgr. Zuzana Dlugošová, Faculty of Law at Comenius University Bratislava
Mgr. Ján Mazúr, PhD., Faculty of Law at Comenius University Bratislava
Právny obzor, 103, 2020,
special issue, pp. 63-86.
Published online: 15.1.2021
Abstract. The present
paper introduces results from a survey carried out among judges, attorneys,
prosecutors, notaries, enforcement officers, law professors and law students.
Its main aim was to identify whether the legal professions dealt appropriately
with information about the behaviour of lawyers apparent from the leaked Threema
communication between Marian Kočner and several representatives of the justice
system. Secondly, the survey strived to determine what could have made lawyers’
response to the Threema scandal more appropriate and how the behaviour described
in Threema could have been prevented. The third important aim of the survey was
to ascertain how to strengthen the integrity of the legal professions. The paper
provides mostly descriptive information about the results of the survey.
Keywords: professional
ethics, judicial integrity, trust in the justice system, crisis of legal
profession
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ISSN 2729-9228
(online)
ISSN 0032-6984
(print)
THEORETICAL REVIEW FOR ISSUES OF STATE AND LAW.
Právny obzor is peer-reviewed journal and is indexed in SCOPUS and HeinOnline database (INDEX TO FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS).
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OPEN ACCESS