What are the characteristics of security of tenure, financial security and administrative independence of a judge?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Do, 2001 BCSC 1088 (CanLII):

In Valente v. The Queen, Le Dain J. for the court considered the three core characteristics of judicial independence to be security of tenure, financial security, and administrative independence, and I shall deal with those three in that order. Security of Tenure

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