Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
This event is reminiscent of an incident which occurred in early post-independent Guyana. The then government created the office of the Chancellor of the Judiciary, over and above the office of the Chief Justice, as head of the judiciary. It was widely believed that this was done not only to circumvent but to also humiliate the then sitting chief justice. It was, presumably, successful because the chief justice resigned and migrated permanently from Guyana shortly thereafter.
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