The Possibility of Reviewing Unlawful Judgments Resulting from Corrupt Judicial Interactions in the Iranian Legal System

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1 PhD student,, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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The ultimate goal of litigation is to ensure justice and uphold legal rights.However, corrupt interactions during judicial proceedings, such as bribery, may result in judgments that conflict with judicial justice.This study examines the possibility of overturning judgments influenced by corrupt interactions in the course of proceedings. The research method relies on documentary analysis, including retrial case files, and forty in depth interviews with lawyers and judicial practitioners. The findings indicate that although the legislator has provided retrial as an extraordinary remedy for challenging final judgments under Articles 474 and 477 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the lack of explicit legal provisions regarding the annulment of judgments upon proof of judicial corruption, ambiguity in determining its instances, the complexity of extraordinary review mechanisms, and the absence of a consistent judicial practice have created serious challenges.These conditions highlight the need for explicit legislative provisions and clear legal mechanisms to address such cases

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Criminal Law Research

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Available Online from 07 July 2026

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