What is the legal immunity of a judge from prosecution?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Slansky v. Canada (Attorney General), 2013 FCA 199 (CanLII):
The principle of judicial independence has resulted in concomitant immunities, most notably (a) the immunity of a judge from suit and prosecution, and (b) the immunity of a judge from testifying about or otherwise justifying the reasons for a particular decision beyond those given in open court: MacKeigan v. Hickman, 1989 CanLII 40 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 796, at p. 830 (“MacKeigan”).
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