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Around 30 years ago, the European Charter on the Statute for Judges (adopted in Strasbourg, 8–10 July 1988) introduced the concept of a Council for the Judiciary in the following terms:
President of the Superior Court of Justice and of the Constitutional Court of Luxembourg.
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Opinion no. 10 (2007) of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) to the attention of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the Council for the Judiciary at the service of society, adopted by the CCJE at its 8th meeting (Strasbourg, 21–23 November 2007), available at https://rm.coe.int/168074779b.
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See paragraph 49 of the Opinion, cited above.
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See paragraph 65 of the Opinion, cited above.
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See paragraph 95 of the Opinion, cited above.
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See paragraph 63 of the Opinion, cited above.
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It is likely that this proposal will be modified by the Government, with the number of judges increasing to six – three members ex officio and three elected members, with a resulting total number of nine.
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Wiwinius, JC. (2019). Independence of the Luxembourg Judiciary Through a Council for the Judiciary – A Never-Ending Story. In: Selvik, G., Clifton, MJ., Haas, T., Lourenço, L., Schwiesow, K. (eds) The Art of Judicial Reasoning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02553-3_15
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