Judicial independence

• Security of tenure

  Judges are appointed for an open ended term only limited by the requirement that they retire at 75
• Guaranteed salaries paid from the Consolidated Fund

  Judges' salaries are classified as standing services and therefore are paid automatically from the Consolidated Fund - set so politicians can't manipulate their salaries to control them
• Offence of Contempt of Court

  under subjudice rules, the media, ministers, and other individuals are prevented from speaking out publicly during legal proceedings -justice is administered fairly without public or political interference
• Independent appointments commission

  The Judicial Appointments Comission has greater transparency to the appointment process and addresses concerns that the system was open to political bias
• Training and experience of senior judges

  Most have served an 'apprenticeship' as barristers and they all come to the bench having achieved a certain status in their profession and have proved they can act without personal or political bias