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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
- Thomas Jefferson

 

PSC members, not Judges but investigators

If the CJ is an honourable person there is no need for anyone to bring an impeachment motion against her. Now all are talking whether it is correct to bring in an impeachment motion and whether it was done properly. That is not the problem or question. We should go to its roots. The CJ is the chairman of the JSC. It is the JSC chaired by the CJ which appointed and transferred Judges of all courts except the highest courts. Those Judges too have no rights. They have no place to go to challenge for their rights. There are Judges who had undergone suffering due to decisions taken by the CJ,

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NO SIR -- LAWYERS AND JUDGES CANNOT TAKE THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS

Clearly, judges who are being investigated on impeachment charges have no recourse to judicial review in the United States for instance, and this has been settled law in the State of Michigan for example. It is obvious that no polity can function if the Judiciary constantly keeps overriding the Legislature, in areas that are clearly turfed out constitutionally for lawmakers,

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Sri Lanka Rights Watch

Playing by rules

What should be as sacred as the independence of judges to decide issues in accordance with the law is the law itself. Where the law is clear, judges have no business to change it. Of course if they believe a law is in conflict with the constitution, they should strike it down, or request amendment, and they should also have the right to do this subsequent to the law being enacted and its effect seen through actual implementation. I would suggest that this should apply also to laws which seem unfair, as with regard to that regarding statutory rape, and Parliament should review such laws,

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