In the UK
- The way in which judges are selected- since 2003 a Judicial Appointments Commission puts forward one nomination for the new Supreme Court.
- Security of tenure. Judges are appointed for life and their salaries guarenteed.
- Political neutrality
HOWEVER
In the Pinochet case the Law Lords ruled 3/5 that Pinochet, the Chilean ex-dictator, should be extradited to Spain for the disappearance of Spanish citizens in the 70s but one of the judges (Lord Hoffman) was a member of Amnesty International so the accusation was that there had been a political decision.
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