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The Chief Justice is head of the judiciary. The Constitution of Mauritius is the supreme legal document of the country. The final appeal from decisions of the Court of Appeal of Mauritius to the Judicial Committee of the Privy council in London as provided for under the Constitution of Mauritius. [1] [2]
The chief justice is the head of the court and has precedence over any other judges in the republic. The chief justice is second in line (after the vice-president) to succeed the president in case of removal, death or resignation until a new president is elected. The chief justice is also fifth in the line of precedence following the president ...
On 1 May 1996 he was appointed the Chief Justice of Mauritius, retiring on 13 June 2007. In November 2001, he was elected as an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. After the resignation of Angidi Chettiar he became acting President of Mauritius from 18 February 2002 until 25 February 2002, when Karl Offmann was elected to this office.
Pages in category "Chief justices of Mauritius" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
He was sworn in as Chief Justice on 13 June 2007, succeeding Ariranga Pillay after the latter's retirement [2] and was replaced on 31 December 2013 by Kheshoe Parsad Matadeen. He has also served as the Mauritian independent expert on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have been located in Mauritius since the end of 2008, as part of a plan to lower the costs of appeal. The present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is, Rehana Mungly-Gulbul who succeeded Ashraf Caunhye in 2021. [12]
As Mauritius follows the British constitutional system, some offices are not regulated by its constitution but by precedent and conventions. Examples include the position of Vice Prime Minister [2] which was maintained from 1983 to 1990 and from 2005 up to now. Governments from 1990 to 2005 did not nominate any Vice Prime Ministers as they were ...
This is a list of heads of state of Mauritius since the independence of Mauritius in 1968. From 1968 to 1992 the head of state under the Mauritius Independence Act 1968 was the queen of Mauritius, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The queen was represented in Mauritius by a governor ...