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Aspects of Judicial Independence and Accountability – Lessons for the Commonwealth Caribbean?*

Ten years ago Sir Anthony Mason, a former Chief Justice of Australia, warned that ‘a failure to strike the right balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability will result in either an unacceptable weakening of judicial independence or inadequate accountability’. 1 1 Judicial Commission of New South Wales (1997) Fragile Bastion – Judicial Independence in the Nineties and Beyond (Sydney: Judicial Commission of New South Wales), Chapt 1, p. 2. This article examines some of the evolving aspects of judicial independence and judicial accountability within and outside the Commonwe…