9 August 202616°CThimphu
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A quiet investment in the scaffolding of our justice

An independent and efficient judiciary is the pivot on which checks and balances turn. Parliament enacts the law and the executive administers it, but it is the courts that measure both against the Constitution. Constitutional guarantees may adorn our institutional edifice; it is the courts that breathe life into them. Our young democracy will stand or fall on that capacity. A strong judiciary doe