BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF PACKAGE LAW ON COURTS
The Package of Laws on Courts initiated by the President of Mongolia and passed by the Parliament came into force from April 15, 2013. These newly adopted laws include Law on Courts, Law on Judicial Administration, Law on Legal Status on Lawyers, Law on Legal Status Citizens Representatives to the Court and Law on Mediation and Conciliation. Today we prepared brief introduction of Law on Courts and Law on Law on Legal Status of Judges.
LAW ON COURTS
The purpose of this law is to regulate relations concerning the legal basis for judicial system, organization, powers and operation, and establishing the guarantees for exercising the judicial power. This law, includes judicial independence, creation of proper workload and ensuring the principles of transparency, and adjustments to reduce the internal sovereignty of the Court. In order to ensure Independence of the judiciary this law focuses on complex of organizational guarantees; economic, political, legal towards and security trends. According the new, law the courts except the Supreme Court will be established by a constituency basis such as size of territories, location, and population density and depending on the number of cases or disputes decided. Primary and appellate courts are established on specialized types of cases such as criminal, civil and administrative matters.
LAW ON LEGAL STATUS OF JUDGES
The purpose of this law is to regulate the relations concerning the legal status of judges, including the qualification and requirements for judges with a function to exercise the judicial power, the powers of judges the impartiality judges and its guarantees.
General qualification and requirements for judges is determined at each levels of court stage. Candidates who meet the requirements set in the law, with relevant experience on judiciary such as lawyers, prosecutors, judges and law school professors can nominate for a judge position.
Ensuring social and economic guarantees of Judges, following provisions set in the law such as judges salary will be increased by two percent every year from the fifth year of his or her service; under no circumstances the parliament shall not reduce the amount of salary, benefits and bonuses paid to judges; and life and accident insurance premiums are responsible for the state budget.
Source: Law on Courts and Law on Law on Legal Status of Judges (in Mongolian)