The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1994] 2 AC 173
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
EVAN REES AND OTHERS APPELLANTS AND RICHARD ALFRED CRANE RESPONDENT
[APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]
1993 Nov. 8,
9,
11;
1994 Feb. 14
1994 Feb. 14
Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Slynn of Hadley, Lord Woolf, Lord Lloyd of Berwick and Sir Thomas Eichelbaum
Trinidad and Tobago
— Constitution
— Judge's removal from office
— Allegation of inability to perform functions of office
— Chief Justice's decision that judge should not preside in court
— Judicial and Legal Service Commission confirming decision
— Whether decisions ultra vires
— Commission representing to President that question of judge's removal ought to be investigated
— Whether judge entitled to be informed of complaints and given opportunity to reply before representation made
— Whether decisions of Chief Justice and commission vitiated by bias
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Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Act 1976 (No. 4 of 1976), Sch., ss. 4 (b), 137