Jana Dubovcová
From Wikileaks
Exposing and confronting corruption in the Slovak judicial system.
As District Court Chief Justice in Slovak Republic, Dubovcová published the results of a survey of corruption in her own court. Findings revealed that nearly one-third of people passing through the courts had encountered corruption. According to Dubovcová: “The biggest surprise to me was that people answered ‘yes, it is the judges themselves who are personally asking for bribes’. I had not expected the survey to show such a result.” Her colleagues were furious, and the Council of Slovak Judges asked the Minister of Justice to dismiss her. Fortunately, he refused, and Dubovcová not only kept her job, but also pioneered the introduction of a new judicial management system. This electronic tracking system not only speeds up cases, it also assigns judges to cases by random selection, so that they cannot demand bribes in advance.