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NO

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1988

"BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN THE JUDGE MAY

KEEP

THERE ARE TWO WATCHDOGS WHO

THEN ACT WITH

IMPUNITY,

CHECK, NAMELY

AN READILY

JUDGES THE

FREE

AND A LEGAL PROFESSION INDEPENDENT (SOMETIMES, WE SAY, TOO READILY!) EXPOSE

IN

WHICH PRESS, THEM, AS THEY SHOULD."

WHETHER CRITERIA OR PERIODS

HE SAID THAT ON THE WHOLE IT WAS POSSIBLE TO DISCOVER A CANDIDATE FOR APPOINTMENT FELL SHORT OF EITHER OF THE TWO AS PERMANENT APPOINTMENTS WERE PRECEDED BY A BRIEF PERIOD OF ACTING WHEN A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE WAS TESTED.

WITH HIGH COURT "IT IS A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT

NO PROBATIONARY PERIOD, FROM ABROAD. THERE IS

FIT CALIBRE

FOR OF A US THAT NO LAWYER JUDICIAL POST IS PREPARED TO GIVE UP HIS THE PROSPECT OF AN UNCERTAIN TENURE OF OFFICE OVERSEAS,

APPOINTMENTS

FOR EXPERIENCE TELLS

TO ELEVATION

THIS HIGH PRIVATE PRACTICE AND FACE

THE ONLY WAY ΤΟ ENSURE SIR TI LIANG STRESSED THAT APPOINTMENT WAS BY MAKING AS FULL AN ENQUIRY AS WAS ABOUT THE OVERSEAS CANDIDATE.

A GOOD HUMANLY POSSIBLE

ON HIS THIRD CRITERION, THE CONCEPT OF HE SAID IT DEFIED DEFINITION.

PROPRIETY OF

CONDUCT,

HUMAN

SUCH AS

THE CHIEF JUSTICE SAID THAT MODESTY, CONDUCT

IT COVERED

DECENCY,

SUCH SOBRIETY,

WIDE

AREAS INTEGRITY,

OF

RESTRAINT IN SPEECH AND BEHAVIOUR.

OF COURT HAS TO DO WITH THE DIGNITY AND

"PROPRIETY OF CONDUCT IN AND OUT SAYING NOTHING AND DOING NOTHING THAT MIGHT DAMAGE REPUTATION OF THE LAW AND THE JUDICIARY.

TIMES

AND

SUCH A WAY AT

FOR RESPECT

ALL

THE

"MORE POSITIVELY, IT IMPLIES BEHAVING IN

ENHANCE то

PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE

AS

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

SENSE THAT EVEN WHAT HE SAYS AND DOES IS IN PRIVATE AND AMONGST PERSONAL FRIENDS, ASSESSED IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS JUDICIAL OFFICE," HE SAID.

"A JUDGE IS THEREFORE NEVER OFF-DUTY, IN THE

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