Sentences with phrase «protecting judicial independence»

«But, (and this is fundamental), it is to protect judicial independence that we must fight corruption», he said.

Sir Igor Judge steps into the lord chief justice role from 1 October — and has already sent out a clear warning that he will strive to protect judicial independence.

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How safe is the framework of separation of powers and the critical concepts it protects, such as judicial independence, if so much of the citizenry does not even know the system exists — or what its role is?

Judicial independence must be protected.

But the ability of judges to protect individual rights — even if the legislature or a majority of voters disagree — depends on judicial independence.

Judicial independence allows the courts to serve as a check on the political branches, when necessary, to protect individual rights.

«The New York State Bar Association has long supported judicial independence as essential to maintaining the rule of law and protecting individual rights.

Judicial independence exists and is zealously guarded and constitutionally protected — we are told (by judges)-- not for the personal benefit of judges, but for the greater good of Canadians.

Although Article III of the Constitution entrenches some protections for judges — the tenure and salary guarantees that were already protected in Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 — prof. Groves shows that much of the architecture of judicial independence that observers of the American judiciary take for granted has no obvious foundation in the constitutional text.

Three states have subsequently adopted public financing of judicial elections to protect the independence of the judiciary from the influence of groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Insurance companies.

The question, it found, was settled by the Supreme Court's decision in Ocean Port Hotel Ltd. v. British Columbia (General Manager, Liquor Control and Licensing Branch), 2001 SCC 52, [2001] 2 S.C.R. 781, which held that the principle of judicial independence did not apply to administrative tribunals, except insofar as their decisions concerned rights protected by sections 7 or 11 (d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

«Whenever we talk about judicial independence, it's about shielding or protecting judges and the judiciary from politics or political criticism, and we don't sufficiently recognize that judicial independence is truly a two - way street,» he says.

The guidelines evidence a failure of the CRTC to create the appropriate structural separations to protect the enforcement function from compromising the independence of the judicial function.