Judges are public servants, not bosses
Absolute power and egregious error will be
totally incompatible, even when the matter involves the judiciary.
Justices of the court are no higher than great Homer who, as Lord
Byron put it, sometimes nods off. The 'robed brethren' on the High
Bench do sometimes blink.
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The Human Dimension
PEACE IN THE MIDST OF TURMOIL?
Look around you and you will become depressed
with the turmoil – there are killings, mishaps, wrongdoings and so
much of injustice taking place that you wonder whether there’s
anything left within us as human beings. What is happening around us
depresses us and has the capacity to question our senses.
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Shirani Bandaranayake, Ph. D -- white lily or prawn-head?
The fatal flaw that has ruined the future of
Bandaranyake, Ph. D., is that she had fallen into the hands of legal
pundits who can’t defend her in any rational way to exonerate her
from guilt of misbehaviour. Besides, both her legal team and her
defenders in the Lawyers’ Collective and Bar Association are
incapable of presenting a valid case on which she could return to
the office of the Chief Justice. When inescapable grave charges are
hanging over her head they resort to legal technicalities. Let us
for the sake of argument concede that they are right on the legal
technicalities. But can Bandaranayake, Ph. D, go back to the bench
purely on the basis that she had been cleared on a technicality?
That would be a travesty of justice,
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