A Lawyer Delays His Disciplinary Hearing. Must the Disciplinary Committee Sit and Wait?
What happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
Read MoreWhat happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
Read MoreYour solicitor raided your money for his own emergency, then quietly put it back. The courts said the wrong was done the moment he took it. Suppose A donates a kidney meant for B, the patient waiting on the transplant list. The surgeon instead implants it in his girlfriend. How would you feel about it — especially if you were B?
Read MoreYou are about to investigate a fellow professional for misconduct. Is there a tried and tested way to conduct a fair - and effective - disciplinary inquiry? Read on.
Read More“…[O]bserve with your own eyes and not with those of others, hearken with your own ears and not with the ears of others” —‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Read MoreAre disciplinary proceedings against doctors far too complex? Are complainants at a disadvantage? Can these proceedings be simplified?
Read MoreWhy not? Dancing is an expression of joy. A judge is human. Why should a judge be deprived of joy? Yet, whether a judge could dance publicly would depend on the occasion, wouldn’t it? Which side of the line did the CJ and the AG tread last week?
Read MoreHundreds of people continue to die in police custody. What has been the history of this problem?
Read MoreWhat happens when judges, bending like reeds in the wind, carry out the biddings of their political masters? Something extraordinary has to be done. Corrupt judges, past and present, ought to be publicly impeached. Can it be done? How?
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