judicial independence

• what act decided judicial independence?

  S3 constitutional reform act 2005
• what did this act say?

  -guarantees judicial independence which must always be upheld

  -judges free from influence of parliament

  -free from influence of gov
• what does free from influence of parliament mean?

  -judges can't become MPs

  -LC limited involvement
• what does free from the influence of the GOV mean?

  can make decisions that displease gov without being dismissed
• give an example that fits with free from the influence of the gov

  prorogation of parliament ruling
• what happened in this ruling?

  SC ruling against gov in 2019
• give the other examples of judicial independence

  -issue declarations of incompatibility

  -since 2009 SC judges not involved in law making in HoL

  -nobody should be a judge in a case where they're a person of interest

  -judicial immunity
• give the example for declarations of incompatibility

  S4 human rights act 1998, A & others v UK 2004
• give the example for not being a judge in a case where you have interest

  pinochet 1998 - wife of judge was involved in his arrest
• give the example of judicial immunity

  sirros v moore 1975