Independence of Judiciary

When you file a consumer complaint against a big builder, you are trusting that the judge will decide on the papers and not on who the builder knows. Now turn it around: what stops a minister from calling a judge the night before a hearing, and what stops the judge from being sent to a remote bench as punishment? The answer is not one rule but a bundle of protections scattered through the Constitution, and this topic is about finding all of them.

In two minutes

Independence of the judiciary means judges can decide without fear or favour from the executive, the legislature or anyone else, and the Constitution secures it through a method of appointment, security of tenure, protected pay, protection from discussion and contempt power.

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