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| 1994 SLG 1098 1994 SLD 1098 = 1994 SCMR 1682 |
Decided on 14th February, 1994, Dates of hearing. 8th, 9th, 11 th November 1993 and 14th February 1994.
: Lord Keith of kinkel, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Woolf, Lord Lloyd of Berwick and Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, JJ
REES and others---Appellants.
VERSUS
CRANE---Respondent
Law:
Section:
Appeal
Even Rees, Garvin Scott, Mr. Justice Lennox Deyalsingh (being members of a tribunal established by the President of Trinidad and Tobago on 22nd November, 1992 to inquire into the question whether the respondent, Richard Alfred Crane, the senior puisne judge of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago, should be removed from office), Chief Justice Clinton Bernard, Sir Isaac Hyatali, Guya Persaud, Kenneth Lalla, Maurice Corbin (being members of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission) and the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago appealed with leave granted by the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago on 8th March, 1993 from the judgment of that Court (Ibrahim and Davis JJA (Sharma J, dissenting)) dated 20th November 1992 reversing the judgment of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago (Blackman, J), dated 21st March 1991 refusing to grant the respondent relief by way of (i) judicial review quashing the decisions (a) of the Chief Justice and/or of the Commission on 19th July 1991 prohibiting the respondent from presiding in Court and (b) of the Commission on 29th November 1991 to represent to the President that the question of removing the respondent from office ought to be investigated or