Judicial reform is the complete or partial political reform of a country's judiciary . Judicial reform can be connected to a law reform , constitutional amendment , prison reform , police reform or part of wider reform of the country's political system.
4-652: Stated reasons for judicial reform include increasing of the independence of the judiciary , constitutionalism and separation of powers , increased speed of justice , increased fairness of justice , improved impartiality , and improving electoral accountability , political legitimacy and parliamentary sovereignty . Areas of the judicial reform often include: codification of law instead of common law , changing between an inquisitorial system and an adversarial system , changes to court administration such as judicial councils or changes to appointment procedure, establishing mandatory retirement age for judges or increasing
8-570: A failing judicial system. His initial Report dated from 2009, and followed a lengthy public consultation. His opinion was that the system as it stood was "outdated, expensive, unpredictable and inefficient." The principal statutory changes were contained in the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 . Independence of the judiciary Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
12-508: The independence of prosecutors from the executive . The 2024 Mexican judicial reform is a series of constitutional amendments that restructured the judiciary of Mexico . The reform replaced Mexico's appointment-based system for selecting judges with one where judges, pre-selected by Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term. It reduces the number of Supreme Court justices from 11 to 9 and limits their terms to 12 years. The reform also allows
16-473: The use of "faceless" judges and establishes a new tribunal for judicial oversight and accountability, while significantly reducing benefits and salaries previously received by members of the judiciary. With its passing, Mexico became the first country to have elections for all judges. The period from 2012 to 2015 is the period of the Lord Presidency of Lord Gill whose agenda was to overhaul and modernise
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