Section 143: Case heard by Acting Magistrate holding substantial appointment in
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
143. Case heard by Acting Magistrate holding substantial appointment in
the Attorney-General’s Office—The person who tried the appellant had been
seconded as an Acting Magistrate to the Judicial Department from the
Attorney-General’s office which, it was contended, was part of the Executive.
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HELD the test applicable in determining whether a trial Magistrate is objectively impartial and independent is to consider whether the judicial officer
offers guarantees sufficient to exclude any legitimate doubt in this respect.
Chundunsing v State (1997).
F. Witnesses’ depositions