Questionnaire Denmark

III.3 In which law?

Whereas the independence of the judiciary is laid down in sect. 64 Constitution, including a rule that judges can only dismissed by judgment in ‘The Special Court of Complaints’, Klageretten, the prosecution service has no corresponding independence. It has been mooted that at least the Attorney General ought to enjoy independence, but nothing has come of it. On the other hand, arbitrary dismissals are unheard of in the government service. Practically speaking, the prosecution service acts as if it had independence.