A Study on Judiciary Management in Iran and Europe

The main duty of the judiciary in any legal system is to fight corruption and monitor the correct implementation of laws. Judiciary, like other powers, has a unique structure and a high management system. The purpose of the current research, which was carried out with a descriptive-analytical method and with library tools, is to investigate and analyze the styles of the management of the judiciary in Iran and Europe. The results of the present research show that there are three styles for managing the judiciary in European countries, and the most important of them is the council and decentralized management in the judiciary. The main style in Europe is to create judicial councils, keeping judges separate from political and external pressures, especially the executive branch. Judicial councils are a means to preserve and enhance judicial independence by taking the authority to appoint judges from the executive branch. But in Iran's legal system, after the implementation of constitutional reforms in 1989, the council management style was dissolved and the centralized management method replaced it. This method is more compatible with the needs of Iran's judicial system by taking into account the jurisprudential foundations of Iran's legal system and the existence of the principle of jurist’s sovereignty.