Devils and Angels of Judicial Integrity

(Excerpt) Judicial integrity and the highest standards of conduct are the bedrock principles for any respectable legal structure. History provides heroes who demonstrate punctilious adherence to, and villains who commit gross departures from, the sine qua nons needed for the achievement, or at least advancement towards the fair administration of the rule of law and ideals of justice. Against this luminous light, a foreboding dark cloud sweeps over from recorded colonial history demonstrating judicial hubris and unbridled zealotry, employed in ways that instead serve personal and predetermined ends by questionable means, unleashed in the abyss of standards and values.