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and to be Judged by an independent and impartial
tribunal.’
On the question of impeachment of Judges, Mr.
Islam has drawn our attention to the case of Justice
Ramaswami (K.Veeraswami V. Union of India), the Sri
Lankan experience, the Malaysian experience and drew
our attention that in 30 jurisdictions (62.5%), a
disciplinary
Executive
body
and
that
is
Legislature
separate
decides
from
both
whether
the
Judges
should be removed from office. The most popular model
found
in
20
jurisdictions
(41.7%)
is
the
ad-hoc
tribunal, which is formed only when the need arises
to consider whether a Judge should be removed. In 10
other
jurisdictions
(20.8%)
the
decision
is
entrusted to a permanent disciplinary council. All
learned Amici other than Mr. Ajmalul Hossain have
also accepted the submission of Mr. Islam.
Dr.
Kamal
Hossain
by
referring
to
an
article
published in Bombay University Press submits that the
American experience in impeaching a Judge has been
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