Chief Justice slams MDP’s proposals for judicial reform

Speaking at the opening of a two-day conference on judicial independence and reform, Didi characterised the MDP’s proposals as “efforts to render the Supreme Court of the Maldives powerless and rob it of its status as the highest authority of the judiciary in order to achieve a political purpose in the name reforming the judiciary.”

The MDP’s legislative agenda includes amending laws to remove powers exercised by the Supreme Court to  appoint and transfer judges, suspend lawyers, and take over cases from lower courts.

But the chief justice argued the Supreme Court must have “supervisory jurisdiction” over lower courts.