155. This Court has determined the most crucial and salient issues with regards to the impeachment and removal of the Applicant and has found that he was not given the right to fair hearing, and therefore will not belabour the issue under this head; as every other issue is hinged upon the procedure of removal which has been declared inappropriate and not compatible with nor in compliance with the various international human rights standards binding the Respondent. 156. However, this Court wishes to point out that, based on the authorities of case laws from other jurisdictions which are persuasive and on the jurisprudence of this Court, the removal of judges from office is a very delicate issue which must be handled with utmost caution because of the function of their office. The then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, Chief Justice William Rehnquist commenting on the removal of a judge from office opined and wrote in his masterpiece publication, “GRAND INQUESTS-1992” that "judicial acts – [a justice's] rulings from the bench – would not be a basis for removal from office by impeachment and conviction." Also, in a similar vein, Lord Phillips in a hearing on the report of the CHIEF JUSTICE OF GIBRALTAR [2009] UKPC 43 stated that: “The independence of the judiciary requires that a judge should never be removed without good cause and that the question of removal be determined by an appropriate independent and impartial tribunal.” 157. This Court is persuaded by the opinions of the above learned law lords stated above and aligns its reasoning with them that, assuming but not conceding that perhaps the Respondent has a good cause to remove the Applicant from his office as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia for any 64