"Finally we can say Indian judiciary works," said Malhotra outside the courtroom, where a crowd cheered as the verdict was announced.
Rolf Mützenich, deputy parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic party, told the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung newspaper: "The Egyptian judiciary works by political guidelines.
Government plans to abolish a raft of quangos by ministerial decree will have to be completely redrawn after Lord Judge, the lord chief justice, attacked the plans as astonishing and a threat to the entire way in which the judiciary works.
It chronicles how the followers of the imam, Fethullah Gulen, have proliferated within the police and the judiciary, working behind the scenes to become one of Turkey's most powerful political forces — and, he contends, one of its most ruthless, smearing opponents and silencing dissenters.
Human Rights Watch, in an annual appraisal issued last Sunday, said that Iran "imprisoned more journalists and bloggers than any other country" in 2011, and that Iran's judiciary "works hand in hand with security and intelligence forces to harass, imprison and convict opposition and rights activists".
Judge said: "Schedule 7 of the public bodies bill includes a large number of institutions which are important in themselves, whose importance is important to the public, and whose independence is part and parcel of the independence which we attach to the entire way in which the judiciary works.
With the press relentlessly covering the Petrobras scandal, and the judiciary working tirelessly to hold those involved accountable, there is ample reason to be optimistic.
The premier is indifferent and/or ignorant about how the judiciary works and he has made it clear that there is no power in heaven or under it that will keep him from delivering on his mandate "for the people".
Earlier this year it announced that the senior judiciary would work with the justice secretary on the review of the courts.
However, Labour suggested the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) should carry out its own investigation into racial bias in the judiciary, claiming work done under the last Government had "ground to a halt".
The authorities' quick response once the scandals came to light and the alleged culprits' swift dispatch to jail shows, he says, an "independent judiciary at work" and a consensus in Congress that due process must be followed to the letter.In any case, Mr Condo argues, what Costa Ricans are now seeing "is not the tip of the iceberg, but the iceberg itself".
