Shoring up judicial independence


There are many constitutional safeguards for judicial independence, but there are also some structural, functional and ideological weaknesses in the laws.

THIS column had on April 14, “Judicial appointments ripe for review”, reviewed the law rela­ting to the Judicial Appointments Commission and pointed out some flaws therein.

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