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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was a time that I was appearing for a former Member of Parliament in this House. He had lost an election petition but he had not lost his parliamentary seat. He filed an election petition - and probably, I have said this before - and a judge hid that file until the last year of that Parliament. By the time that petition was heard and he won the election petition, within one month, Parliament was dissolved and, therefore, he did not find the fruits of judgment. That was the Judiciary meeting acting by the whims of the Executive. As one of the British judges said, the courts should never be more executive than the Executive, if we want to have a truly independent and impartial Judiciary. One of the things that this Bill that I recommend to the House wants to address is not to have a Judiciary of that time. Even on the hearing of cases, it is obvious that there are those standards or principles that are set out. Cases should be decided on time and that justice should be done to all; big and small, so that everybody feels that they are all equal before the law. The Judiciary should become the main arbiter between disputes among citizens and also an arbiter of disputes between various arms of Government and between the Government and its own people and do it in a fair, open and transparent manner."
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