AT the heart of the Privy Council’s judgment on Monday in the appeal involving Justice Marcia Ayers-Caesar and the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) was the reaffirmation of the critical importance of judicial independence and security of tenure to which judicial ­officers are entitled under the Constitution.

This according to the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT), which said yesterday that security of tenure ensures judicial officers are free from external pressures and interference.

And it matters not whether those pressures and interference are exerted by the Executive, the JLSC which appoints them, or the Chief Justice who leads them, LATT said in a media release.