The doctrine invoked in quiet defence is judicial independence. Recently, however, a rising number of complaints against judges have met a familiar fate before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). If the same reasoning were applied to judges, a complaint grounded in incompetence would require a series of defective decisions rather than an isolated one. The challenge, therefore, is not whether judicial decisions may be examined, but how they should be examined. Where judges repeatedly produce decisions unintelligible to law itself, the problem ceases to be jurisprudential and becomes constitutional and urgent.

Source: Standard Digital March 12, 2026 22:41 UTC