Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 1996: The Tension between Judicial Accountability and Judicial Independence: A Canadian Perspective

... I propose to outline both the sources and the meaning of judicial independence as a core constitutional value in Canada. I then wish to say a few words about judicial accountability, and explain why judicial accountability cam be said to be in tension with judicial independence. I then propose to examine two of the issues discussed in the Friedland Report from the perspective of the manner in which the tension between judicial independence and judicial accountability plays itself out in relation to them. The issues I have selected are judicial discipline and judicial education. ...