Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
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He was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
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He lost the case three to two in 1988. The Federal Court handed it to him in 2024, long after he was gone.
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How should we choose our civil servants? Who chooses them? What are the criteria to be employed? How should they be fired? Should not civil society and Parliament have a role to play? Should not the public be consulted?
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Dissent means disagreement between judges. In a case comprising, say 3 judges, a dissent occurs when one judge distances himself or herself from the other 2 on grounds of legal principle. A dissent is not without its uses. It may limit the majority decision in some way. Or the dissent may bear a seed of a wonderful legal point waiting to germinate at some future time. A brilliant lawyer will water ...
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