(Brunei Darussalam) The Board considered whether the chief Justice of Brunei could be considered to be properly independent.
Held: Lord Bingham rejected the contention for an objective perception of bias as fanciful, saying of the Chief Justice, aged 74 at the material time, that he came to the office then held at the end of a long and distinguished judicial career, after retiring from the bench in Hong Kong, and already in receipt of what he described as a ‘reasonably adequate pension’. He could only be seen as ‘a man for whom all ambition was spent, save that of retiring with the highest judicial reputation’.
Judges:
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Mance, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Citations:
[2007] UKPC 62
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Jurisdiction:
Commonwealth
Cited by:
Cited – Misick and Others v The Queen PC 25-Jun-2015
Turks and Caicos – The appellants, a former Chief Minister and others, faced a trial on charges of corruption. They objected that the Justice set to hear the case had insufficient security of tenure to guarantee independence, and that the same judge . .
See Also – Bolkiah and others v The State of Brunei Darussalam and Another (63) PC 8-Nov-2007
(Brunei Darussalam) . .
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Updated: 19 September 2022; Ref: scu.261486
