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Securing Judicial Independence: The Role of Commissions in Selecting Judges
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As Justice Kate O’Regan notes in the Intro-duction to this book: “Appointing indepen-dent, competent and trusted judges is central to ensuring the rule of law in a democracy. The last few decades have seen the establish-ment of judicial appointment committees in many Commonwealth countries that have diminished the power of the executive over the appointment of judges.”
This book asks what lessons can be learnt from the experience of the Judicial Service Commission in South Africa and its coun-terparts elsewhere in the Commonwealth. It contains in-depth studies of how judges are appointed in the jurisdictions of Canada, England and Wales, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa. It also presents the Cape Town Principles on the Role of Independent Commissions in the Selection and Appointment of Judges, which offer practical guidance both to law reformers seeking to establish new judicial appointment processes and to any existing commissions and committees wishing to review the methods by which they select judges.
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978-1-928309-16-1
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Book
English
Siber Ink CC
2017
South Africa
xviii, 181p.; 25.5cm
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