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Asserting that the judicial branch must remain independent of policies that “could control or manipulate proceedings,” British Columbia’s top three judges have delivered a thinly veiled rebuke to the Liberal government’s justice-reform initiative.
Their comments raise questions about what impact the review can have, mere weeks after it was announced….
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…(I)n a five-page letter released Thursday, Chief Justice Lance Finch
“The public could not have confidence in the independence and impartiality of the courts if others, outside the judicial branch, could control or manipulate proceedings by interfering in any of these functions,” the letter read. “A judge cannot be independent if the necessary support staff is unavailable, or is subject to the control of and accountable to others.”…