The purpose of this paper is to show the impact of (im)partiality in criminal law, as one of the areas to which legal theory, at least in the author's opinion, does not pay enough attention. The paper is divided into sections, in order to show the (im)partiality of judicial decision-making through its historical development, to show the philosophical side of (im)partiality in criminal law as well as in law in general, and to conclude by showing (im)partiality as it is reflected in substantive and procedural criminal law. In this paper, we deal with the issue of de facto impartiality, which emerges as an almost unattainable ideal, and procedural impartiality, which, at least in the opinion of the European Court of Human Rights, is at the heart of the notion of impartiality in law.
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