"...In making state policy a success by issuing rulings with the quality of justice, the Special Criminal Courts? Appeal Court is a leading body. Significantly, in order to fulfill its leadership duties the Appeal Court?s chairman and members include members of the Revolutionary Council and cabinet ministers. There can be no persons more familiar with state policy than those persons involved in formulating policy. There can be no persons with more practical understanding of how the power of law also can be used to make policy a success than those persons. Indeed, in traditional Burmese justice too, when the ministers involved both in the making of law and management of state affairs, under the leadership of the king and crown prince, together heard and ruled on appeals they issued verdicts with the quality of justice and which made state policy a success. In the villages and townships likewise, respected learned persons who emerged from among the people were assigned to adjudicate on tribunals. Thus, the judiciary was not independent of the people..."