Court’s order of preventive detention, then the matter was
settled. The fundamental question is; how can such an action
validate what was previously and patently arbitrary, unlawful
and in breach of the principles set out in Article 6(d) of the
Treaty? How can it be said that a Partner State is adhering to
the principles of good governance and the rule of law when a
citizen is arrested and held incommucado without any
competent Court being seized of his matter? It matters not, as
claimed by the 2nd Respondent, that the subject was held in a
known facility and it matters not that his family, lawyers and
friends may have had access to him. Where is his liberty when
his incarceration has not been ordered by any Court of Law
that is competent to order such incarceration?
40. These questions are not addressing any human rights issue per
se but are addressing adherence to issues of good governance
and the rule of Law, generally. In Katabazi (supra) the Court
partly adopted the decision in Bennet vs. Horsefery Road
Magistrate���s Court and another where Lord Griffith stated as
follows:
“If the Court is to have power to interfere with the
prosecution in the present circumstances it must be
because the judiciary accepts a responsibility for the
maintenance of the rule of law that embraces a
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