Courts Service Act, 1998

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Independence of exercise of judicial functions.

9.—No function conferred on or power vested in the Service, the Board or the Chief Executive, under this Act shall be exercised so as to interfere with the conduct of that part of the business of the courts required by law to be transacted by or before one or more judges or to impugn the independence of—

(a) a judge in the performance of his or her judicial functions, or

(b) a person other than a judge in the performance of limited functions of a judicial nature conferred on that person by law.