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  • 17 - Forging a Judicial Identity

  • from Judicial Identity and the Judicial Role
  • Edited by Anna Dziedzic, University of Melbourne, Simon N. M. Young, The University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts
    Published online:
    26 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 268-283

  • Summary

    The judges who served as members of the Colonial Legal Service, established in 1933, were part of a community that was built and sustained by the imaginations of officials in the Colonial Office and those who served in the colonies. The judges of the Colonial Legal Service were shaped by the uniformity of formalised recruitment and promotion policies that rewarded professional legal experience at the Bar rather than local knowledge. A colonial legal career was not necessarily limited to one colony or region and legal officers were frequently transferred. The high number of transfers partly explains judges’ attitudes towards the administration of justice, in particular the fact that they often remained wedded to English law. Colonial judges were defined by their backgrounds – personal, educational and professional – and by the roles they performed. This chapter discusses how these factors helped create a unique sense of identity within the Colonial Legal Service.