Geoff Plant on "Judicial Independence"...

Yesterday - the Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal, Lance Finch, had some words to provincial politicians on the idea of 'judicial independence' - read more here

Now - former BC Attorney-General Geoff Plant (2001-2005) has written also on the subject of 'judicial independence' and no, he doesn't share entirely the views of Mr. Chief Justice Finch - read more here

I agree with Mr. Plant on this point -- there is a difference between managing the "legal infrastructure of our Justice System" vs "micro-managing/telling Judges how to behave, etc"