Monday, December 03, 2012

JUDGES: ELECTED OR APPOINTED

Judges should be appointed...

The condition there is that the five permanent member countries of the Security Council would compulsorily have ‘at least’ one judge, and the rest would be from their close allies. Thus when ICJ interrogates any crime, judges of that country and allies will act in support of the state and in extreme, they use veto power. On this unfair state of affairs, even Hilario G. Davide, Philippine Permanent Representative to UN retorted in an open debate before the General Assembly on November 18, 2008, “Why give the Permanent Members of the Security Council such a special privilege, which could result in a continuing violation of the representations requirements?” Even when US Secy. General Ban Ki-moon appointed a committee to independently scrutinise qualification of appointees to ICJ, he was told to consider “geography and sex above all”.

Well, you’ve blamed the judiciary bench at your will for long now, but the next time you decide to do so, remember, there’s nothing wrong with them, it’s us! For we ‘democratically’ voted them to (mis)judge us, didn’t we?!


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.An Initiative of IIPMMalay Chaudhuri

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