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IN FULL: Privy Council judgement on Gibraltar Chief Justice
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has advised by a majority of 4 to 3 that the Chief Justice, Mr Justice Schofield, should be removed from office by reason of his inability to discharge the functions of his office.
Although there were a number of incidents that amounted to misbehaviour, none of these was of itself sufficiently serious to justify his dismissal from office on the ground of misconduct, said the judges advising his removal.
The dissenting judges said that judicial officers should not be removed from office save in circumstances where the integrity of the judicial function itself had been compromised.
*THE 87-PAGE JUDGEMENT IN FULL IS AT:
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