Dawes reported that the Bills were central to the package of measures devised by the justice ministry and Parliament's justice committee, ostensibly to improve access to justice and accelerate the transformation of the judiciary.
He also reported that while plans to rationalise the structure of the courts were generally welcomed, constitutional changes to hand full control of administrative functions to the justice minister, and to give the president an expanded role in the appointment of senior judicial officers, were widely seen as undermining the independence of the judiciary.
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