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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.
Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing change in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency. Intimately related are law reform bodies or law commissions , which are organizations set up to facilitate law reform.
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [1] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. [3]
Mexico's judicial reform overhauling the country's courts, which will allow voters to elect judges, officially took effect on Sunday after the text of the constitutional changes was published in ...
Mexico's Senate on Wednesday approved a judicial reform that has fueled a court workers' strike, strained relations with the United States and triggered market volatility in Latin America's second ...
The radical reform package could also rattle the business and investment environment in Mexico, the United States’s biggest trading partner. The judges are mounting a last-ditch effort…
Chief Justice Taft led a public campaign for federal judicial reform. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921, had led a public campaign for federal judicial reform since leaving the White House in 1913. Taft proposed the appointment of at-large judges, what he called a "flying squadron", that could be assigned ...
The judicial reform currently under review by the Supreme Court has stoked concerns about the independence of the judiciary and the division of powers.