Agreed, Larry, we also have a Minister of Justice who is part of the government (excutive branch).
The legisltive, the executive and the judiciary powers are supposedly independant from each other. One way to figure this out is by seeing who gets nominated and how. For instance, the executive power is represented by a prime mninister (or a president) who's party has received the majority of votes. He decides who will be part of the executive (choosing in his party or others who have accepted to follow his program).
The legislative power is represented by all those who have been elected and who had available seats in the parliament.
The judiciary power is quite different: judges are beeing nominated according to their diplomas, their experience. and nominated by a college of other judges, the justice minister (and in the town or province they will exercize their ministry). Some decisions they make have sometimes political extensions (like how to deal with euthanasia). What's unfair is that a judge X from the town X' will decide in a completely different way from a judge Y in a town Y'; and if you live in Y', you can't count on judge X.

Raoul