There is nothing strange, or wrong, with former politicians serving in fields of judicial office.
So said former chief justice and attorney general Sir David Simmons.
Speaking publicly on his own tenure as chief justice after a long period of political service for the first time, Sir David yesterday lashed back at critics who had problems with him being named to head the Barbados judiciary in 2002.
“The controversy about my appointment was partly influenced by narrow, partisan politics,” Sir David told a packed house of graduates of the University of the West Indies at their graduation ceremony at the Garfield Sobers Complex yesterday.
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