POLSCI 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Privy Council Of The United Kingdom, Supreme Court Of Canada
15 Feb 2017
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The judiciary is separate from and independent of the other two branches of government, the executive and legislature. Judicial independence guarantees that judges will be able to make decisions free of in uence and based solely on fact and law. They are non-partisan; no bias on who wins or who loses. Immunity from prosecution: as long as they are excreting their judicial power honestly, we can prosecute them civilly, they are immune to civil prosecution. Judges can be removed by a joint address of parliament(house and. Senate) or a provincial legislature, only after an independent and impartial investigation shows that there is good reason: a judge has never been removed in canada. !1: we pay them really well so that they cannot be bribed and so that they do not get incentives from ruling a certain way. Monday, november 7, 2016: we may there salaries payable by government, chief justice supreme court of canada makes ,800.
