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Judicial Independence in Italy
2012The most accurate way to assess the actual status of external and internal judicial independence of the Italian judiciary is to analyze the governance of the judiciary from recruitment to retirement and the extent to which external authorities, and in particular the Minister of Justice, may influence decisions in that area.
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2014
Extracts have been chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts and to show how legal principles are developed. This chapter examines the notion of judicial independence. It discusses the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and its provisions reforming the office of the Lord Chancellor ...
Brian Thompson, Michael Gordon
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Extracts have been chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts and to show how legal principles are developed. This chapter examines the notion of judicial independence. It discusses the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and its provisions reforming the office of the Lord Chancellor ...
Brian Thompson, Michael Gordon
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Corruption and Judicial Independence
2011The purpose of this chapter is to advance collective thinking about judicial independence into the realm of anti-corruption, to recognise the tension between political protections and economic controls, and to sketch some modest ways through the hard choices for reformers concerned about both political and economic threats to judicial independence and ...
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2017
This chapter considers the fundamental constitutional principle of judges being independent. Securing the independence of the judiciary is difficult and involves not only separation from the legislature and executive, but also from each other and the media. Issues of judicial ethics and restrictions on practice are also discussed.
Alisdair A. Gillespie, Siobhan Weare
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This chapter considers the fundamental constitutional principle of judges being independent. Securing the independence of the judiciary is difficult and involves not only separation from the legislature and executive, but also from each other and the media. Issues of judicial ethics and restrictions on practice are also discussed.
Alisdair A. Gillespie, Siobhan Weare
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Judicial Independence Not Judicial Isolation
2008Abstract Abstract This paper argues that the judiciary should be both independent and involved. It should not be isolated. In any jurisdiction the existence of a judiciary which is both individually and institutionally independent is critical to the rule of law.
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Global Journal of Comparative Law, 2013
Judicial independence is increasingly viewed as a sine qua non of democratic constitutionalism. But in spite of a widespread consensus on the importance of having an independent judiciary, debates about the meaning of judicial independence persist in the literature.
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Judicial independence is increasingly viewed as a sine qua non of democratic constitutionalism. But in spite of a widespread consensus on the importance of having an independent judiciary, debates about the meaning of judicial independence persist in the literature.
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