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Good Governance is the key to a nation's progress. The desirability of good governance is beyond dispute. The concept of good governance serves two-fold purposes. First, from people's point of view, it ensures their freedom in a society established on rule of law. Second, from government point of view, it regulates their functions and make the government disciplined and thereby makes a restricted or limited government. It's also undisputable that Judiciary has played an important role in ensuring good governance by making the other organs of the government to adhere to the principle of good governance. But it's equally important the Judiciary must equally adhere to the same standards of good governance. For an independent and impartial judiciary, it is important that the judiciary strictly follow the principles of good governance. In this paper the author has examines the principles of good governance and judicial independence. The author further explains that how accountability which is an essential component of good governance is must for an independent and impartial judiciary. At the end the paper concludes that good governance and judicial independence are complimentary and supplementary to each other.