Kiribati’s court of appeal said government’s latest bid to deport high court justice David Lambourne on national security grounds was ‘far-fetched’
After its failed initial deportation effort, the Kiribati government had issued new paperwork to deport Lambourne on the grounds that he was a threat to national security. The court also invalidated this order.
The court ordered that Lambourne’s passport be returned to him, and held that the Kiribati government should pay the judge’s legal costs. Lambourne was represented by Sydney barristers Perry Herzfeld SC and Daniel Reynolds.“The attorney general’s approach on the present appeals is, to say the least, unorthodox, but then again the present circumstances are most unusual, with the relevant operations of the high court paralysed by the suspension of both its judges,” said the court.
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