Part I: The Legacy of the Provincial Judges Reference

Foreword: The Challenges of Judicial Independence

Justice Richard J Goldstone

Introduction: Judicial Independence in Context

Adam Dodek and Lorne Sossin

Part II: In need of Broader Reforms? — Appointments and Court Administration

“Be Careful What You Wish For”: Administrative Independence and Alternative Models of Court Administration — The New Frontier

Graeme G Mitchell QC

Should They All Just Get Along? — Judicial Ideology, Collegiality, and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada

Benjamin Alarie and Andrew Green

Promotion of Federally Appointed Judges and Appointment of Chief Justices: The Unfinished Agenda

Jacob Ziegel

Part III: Conceptual and Practical Challenges to Judicial Independence

Reflections: On Judicial Diversity and Judicial Independence

Sonia Lawrence

Contradictory or Complementary?_ Reconciling Judicial Independence with Judicial Social Context Education

Rosemary Cairns Way

The Significance of Public Pressure on Judicial Independence

Patricia Hughes

Judicial Independence as a Public Policy Instrument

Adam M Dodek

The Impact of Technology on Courts and Judicial Ethics: An Overview

Karen Eltis

Part IV: International Perspectives

Defending Judicial Independence in the British Constitution

Graham Gee

Judicial Independence and Impartiality in the United States?—Complexities and a Sometime Thing

Jameson W Doig

Judicial Non-Dependence: Operational Closure, Cognitive Openness, and the Underlying Rationale of the Provincial Judges Reference—The Israeli Perspective

Amnon Reichman

The Judiciary in South Africa: Independence or Illusion?

Penelope Andrews

Independence and Impartiality in International Adjudication

Fabien Gélinas

Part V: Reflections, Narratives, and Cautionary Tales

Further Reflections on A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Canada

Martin L Friedland

The Media and Judicial Independence

John Honderich

Crisis in Pakistan

Justice Robert J Sharpe and Michelle Bradfield

Going Too Far, Too Fast: Judicial Independence and Political Judgment

Janice Gross Stein

Conclusion: A General Theory of Judicial Independence Revisited

Peter H Russell

Afterword: Judicial Independence in Canada—The Evolution Continues

Justice Brian W Lennox

Index