The Features of the Constitutional doctrine of the independence of Courts as formulated in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Lithuania

Abstract

The constitutional system of the judiciary and the peculiarities of this system determine certain specific features of the constitutional doctrine of the independence of the judiciary. The guarantees of judges and courts in administering justice are interrelated and form a harmonious system. The doctrine of the Constitutional Court does not provide for an exhaustive list of the guarantees of the independence of judges and courts; rather, it lays down the relevant essential guarantees and elucidates individual elements o f them. [...]