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- The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Table of International Instruments
- Abbreviations
- 1 An Introduction to Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- Part I Rationales, Motivations and Design
- Part II Implications and Impact
- First-Hand Accounts
- Judicial Identity and the Judicial Role
- 16 Colonial-Era Mixed Courts, the Compensation of Foreigners for Wrongful State Acts and the Emergence of International Judges as Guarantors of Individual Rights
- 17 Forging a Judicial Identity
- 18 Domestic Criticisms of Foreign Judges
- 19 Judicial Mobilities
- Adjudication, Accountability and Independence
- Index
17 - Forging a Judicial Identity
The Colonial Legal Service
from Judicial Identity and the Judicial Role
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Table of International Instruments
- Abbreviations
- 1 An Introduction to Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
- Part I Rationales, Motivations and Design
- Part II Implications and Impact
- First-Hand Accounts
- Judicial Identity and the Judicial Role
- 16 Colonial-Era Mixed Courts, the Compensation of Foreigners for Wrongful State Acts and the Emergence of International Judges as Guarantors of Individual Rights
- 17 Forging a Judicial Identity
- 18 Domestic Criticisms of Foreign Judges
- 19 Judicial Mobilities
- Adjudication, Accountability and Independence
- Index
Summary
The judges who served as members of the Colonial Legal Service, established in 1933, were part of a community that was built and sustained by the imaginations of officials in the Colonial Office and those who served in the colonies. The judges of the Colonial Legal Service were shaped by the uniformity of formalised recruitment and promotion policies that rewarded professional legal experience at the Bar rather than local knowledge. A colonial legal career was not necessarily limited to one colony or region and legal officers were frequently transferred. The high number of transfers partly explains judges’ attitudes towards the administration of justice, in particular the fact that they often remained wedded to English law. Colonial judges were defined by their backgrounds – personal, educational and professional – and by the roles they performed. This chapter discusses how these factors helped create a unique sense of identity within the Colonial Legal Service.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts , pp. 268 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023