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UNDP Capacity Assessment Methodology User‘s Guide4.7 Accountability - Additional areas of explorationJudiciaryDo judges have the capacity to:Exercise jurisdiction to review the lawfulness of government decisions? If so, are these powersused? Are decisions respected and complied with by the government? Is there a perception thatthe Executive gets special treatment, be it hostile or preferential? Do the judges have adequateaccess to legal development in comparable systems elsewhere?Do authorities have the capacity to:Ensure that members of the legal profession make sufficient use of the courts to protect theirclients and to promote just and honest government under the law?Ensure access to the courts is as open and simple as it can be?Ensure that legal requirements are not unnecessarily complicated?Ensure that appointments to the senior Judiciary are made independent of other arms ofgovernment?Local GovernmentDo authorities have the capacity to:Ensure that government is democratically accountable?Ensure that government is subject to independent audit?Ensure that meeting of local bodies are held in public unless there is a legal basis for beingrestricted?74