PART I The legacy of the Provincial Judges Reference
- The bad idea of unwritten constitutional principles: protecting judicial salaries / Peter W. Hogg
- The case for dialogue in the judicial remuneration process / Lori Sterling & Sean Hanley
- Between the judiciary and the executive: the elusive search for a credible and effective dispute-resolution mechanism / 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
- Should they all just get along?: judicial ideology, collegiality, and appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada / Benjamin Alarie & 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 complimentary?: 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 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 GeĢlinas
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 / Robert J. Sharpe & 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 / Brian W. Lennox