Donigi denies involvement in judiciary over-throw
I have not participated fully in the discourse concerning the disqualifications of the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Kirriwom because I believed in the system. Today I believe the system’s viability is at stake. I have practised law in this country for 40 years and this is the first time that we have a conflict between all three arms of government. We did have the first one between the judiciary and the executive when Minister Rooney was sentenced for contempt of Court and her subsequent release from Bomana on licence resulted in the resignations of the judges. The crisis that we are now witnessing is two fold. One concerns the ruling and orders of the court on 12 December 2011 in proceedings SCR of 2011. The other concerns the perceived bias by a number of judges of this court. The two in my humble view should not have been confused or fused together into the same bundle. If so we will be digging our own graves. By this I mean the disaster that has befallen the national judicial sy