What is the test for judicial immunity?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Madadi v. B.C. (Ministry of Education), 2012 BCHRT 380 (CanLII):
The constitutional application of judicial immunity, however, is also rooted in the need to insulate the judiciary as a branch of government from administrative interference from the other branches of government: MacKeigan v. Hickman (1980), 2 S.C.R. 796, paras. 55-61.
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