The Role of the Judges as an Aspect of Accessibility to Law in Visual Culture

The presented paper has two main objectives. The first is to present accessibility to the law in the perspective of the changes brought by the process of visualisation. In this perspective, accessibility to the law becomes a right, expected by the whole society. The second objective is to show that the choice of the role of the judge is important for ensuring such accessibility. The realisation of both aims is accompanied by the idea that opening up to the social factor in judicature is based not only on a change of rhetoric but also on a change of the form of communication. In order to fulfil the tasks mentioned above, the reasons for choosing the presented approach to accessibility to the law will be presented first. One such rationale is the ongoing visualisation of the judicial process. The increasing saturation with visuality, connected with the development of social media, prompts the question about the role of the judge. This approach to the topic, which shifts the focus from text to image, also has the value of rehabilitating the importance of cultural visualisation in jurisprudence, which is dominated by the understanding of law as a linguistic phenomenon. Thus, visual culture determines not only the object of documentation of thoughts formulated in the article, but also the research method.