Legal validity and judicial ethics

Abstract

It is commonplace to say there is a judicial duty of make decisions according to law.This refers in part to a duty to follow the relevant adjectival law according to theprocedures laid down for law in law. The telos of such ‘due process’ is theidentification and application of the relevant substantive law and the application ofthis corpus to the facts, as they are found to be by the court following the appropriatelegal procedures. Arguably, this duty to make decisions according to law is the corejudicial contribution to the rule of law and the grounds of many other judicial duties.