Judicial reform

Judicial reform is the complete or partial political reform of a country's judiciary. Judicial reform can be connected to a law reform, constitutional amendment, prison reform, police reform, or part of wider reform of the country's political system.Peter Barenboim, Natalya Merkulova. "The 25th Anniversary of Constitutional Economics: The Russian Model and Legal Reform in Russia, in The World Rule of Law Movement and Russian Legal Reform", edited by Francis Neate and Holly Nielsen, Justitsinform, Moscow (2007). Stated reasons for judicial reform include increasing of the independence of the judiciary, constitutionalism and separation of powers, increased speed of justice, increased fairness of justice, improved impartiality,European Parliament, Council and Commission, Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 26 October 2012 and improving electoral accountability, political legitimacy, and parliamentary sovereignty. Areas of the judicial reform often include: codification of law instead of common law, changing between an inquisitorial system and an adversarial system, changes to court administration such as judicial councils or changes to appointment procedure, establishing mandatory retirement age for judges or increasing the independence of prosecutors from the executive.

Africa Judicial Reform Committee of South Sudan

Asia Judiciary Reform Commission (Kyrgyzstan) The Judiciary Reform Commission (KRSS) is a commission set up in Kyrgyzstan to examine the “basic directions of judiciary reform in the Kyrgyz Republic”, with a view to implement a reform package before 2016. The chairman of the group is Omurbek Tekebayev.

2023 Israeli judicial reform

2025 Israeli judicial reform

Pakistan

Europe Administration of Justice Act

Judicial reform of Alexander II

Romanian judicial reform

Constitutional Reform Act 2005

Scottish judicial reform The period from 2012 to 2015 is the period of the Lord Presidency of Lord Gill whose agenda was to overhaul and modernise a failing judicial system.See under "Reforms to the Scottish Courts system" in Lord Gill His initial Report dated from 2009, and followed a lengthy public consultation. His opinion was that the system as it stood was "outdated, expensive, unpredictable and inefficient."Senior judge hits out at 'Victorian' Scots courts The Scotsman, by the Newsroom, 8 May 2009 The principal statutory changes were contained in the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.

Judicial reform in Ukraine

Judicial Reform in Albania Albania’s judicial reform was strongly pushed by the European Union as part of the country’s accession effort, with the aim of cleaning up a politicized and inefficient justice system. SPAK became its flagship anti-corruption institution, but the reform also exposed deep structural problems: vetting removed many judges and prosecutors, which improved integrity but also hollowed out the courts, created major backlogs, and slowed ordinary justice. The heavy use of pretrial detention has become another major concern, especially in high-profile cases such as Ilir Meta and Erion Veliaj, where critics argue it raises questions about proportionality, due process, and the broader direction of reform.

Protests against Polish judiciary reforms

North America

Supreme Court reform in the United States

Judiciary Act of 1789

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

1960 Puerto Rican judicial reform referendum

2024 Mexican judicial reform

South America Judicial reform in Peru under Alberto Fujimori

Judicial reform

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