POLSCI 3NN6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Judicial Independence, Judicial Activism, Statutory Interpretation
13 Dec 2013
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Set up to provide fair procedure and reconsideration, authoritative, enforceable and decisive results, independent and impartial decision-making and rule oriented decisions. However the judiciary does tend to be slow, formal and expensive with limited evidentiary scope. 96-100 and the preamble to the constitution act. It serves to safeguard our constitutional order to maintain public confidence in the administration of justice. It consists essentially in the freedom to render decisions based: methods of ensuring independence, tenure, financial security, administrative independence, immunity from prosecution solely on the requirements of the law and justice. It requires that the judiciary be left free to act without improper interference from any other entity. Re: remuneration of judges: below are the core characteristics of judicial independence referenced from the remuneration of judges case. It is a precondition of judicial independence that they must be maintained and be seen by a reasonable person who is fully informed of all the circumstances to be maintained: attitude activism vs.
