‘Visa restrictions, acting appointments are modern pressures on judicial independence’ — Justice Abel
(Kaieteur News) – Modern threats to judicial independence rarely present as explicit commands or direct violence. Instead, they operate by subtly “arranging the atmosphere” to teach judges which decisions carry high personal and institutional costs, prominent legal scholar Professor Justice Courtney Abel warned regional jurists. Delivering an address on current tensions between judicial independence and the […] The post ‘Visa restrictions, acting appointments are modern pressures on judicial independence’ — Justice Abel appeared first on Kaieteur News .