Chief Justice Ivor Archie’s recent call for “acceptance” among judges suggests that at least some of them have not been dispensing justice impartially to all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.

Speaking at the Caribbean Judges’ Forum on HIV Health and Human Rights last Thursday, the Chief Justice asserted, “As lawyers and judges, we must begin from the premise that it is possible to construct functional, moral or ethical codes of behaviour without adherence to any particular doctrine, regardless of how strongly we may hold our personal religious convictions.”