Our constitutional democracy is founded on the separation of the powers of the three branches of government; the legislative, the executive and the judicial. The legislative and executive branches are intended to be political with members elected on the basis of promises and speaking and voting in response to public pressure. The judicial branch is structured to be free of political or public pressure in order to provide impartial protection for the rights of all people.
Our judges must be free to make decisions based on the law rather than public opinion and without regard to external pressures whether political, financial or any kind of special interests. This is the concept of judicial independence on which the stability of our constitutional democracy is dependent and on which it rests. In a very real sense the independence of the judiciary is essential to independence of all citizens. In our democracy everyone is entitled to courts that will issue their decisions based on law and not on the popularity, power or purse of the parties.
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