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Explain the constitutional significance of the independence of the judiciary. To what extent does present law and practice ensure that the judiciary are indeed independent?
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Explain the constitutional significance of the independence of the judiciary. To what extent does present law and practice ensure that the judiciary are indeed independent? A constitution is a: ...set of the most important rules that regulate the relations among the different parts of the government of a given country and also the relations between the different parts of the government and the people of the country.1 Not only is the UK Constitution uncodified, flexible and unitary, but it greatly differs from, for example, the US Constitution which boasts a clearly defined constitutional agreement in the form of the Bill of Rights. There is no single, written source of the UK Constitution. Its roots can be found in, for example: statutes, common law (case law and judicial precedent), constitutional conventions, European Union law and works of authority. In this essay I shall be focusing on the role of the judiciary (i.e. 'the government...
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