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Carolyn Hong
New Straits Times
04-07-2002
Sitting in judgment on judicial appointments
Byline: Carolyn Hong
Edition: 2*
Memo: (STF) - English judges are held in high esteem everywhere in the world, yet they have decided to submit to a public scrutiny. CAROLYN HONG speaks to Sir Colin Campbell, the First Commissioner for Judicial Appointments.

SIR Colin Campbell has a fascinating job. He noses about the hush- hush process of appointing judges in England, sniffs out anything which is even remotely unseemly, uncovers what is excellent and reports back to the public.

He is Her Majesty's First Commissioner for Judicial Appointments - first as in "first among equals" as he is the Commission's ...

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