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The Administrative Independence of the Federal Courts
A Case for Reform
From: The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court
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This chapter argues that judicial independence is a pillar of our constitutional democracy and as such is a principle anchored in the Canadian state structure and recognized as essential to the protection of the fundamental rights and individual freedoms of citizens, as well as to the sound administration of justice in our society. Therefore, it must be the subject of guarantees enshrined in constitutional texts and be implemented in practice through the adoption of legislative structures and administrative measures.
Contributors
Martine Valois
Martine Valois is an associate professor and a graduate of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law (LLB 1986 and LLD 2010) and of Harvard University (LLM 1991). She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 1988. She received the Lawyer Emeritus distinction from the Bar in 2017. Professor Valois’s academic interests include research on judicial independence, adjudicative independence, commissions of inquiry, public procurement law, anticorruption law, alternative resolution of conflicts in the public sphere, governance, refugee and immigration law, fundamental rights, and social systems theory.
