A High Court judge has grant­ed leave to chal­lenge the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (JLSC) over its pro­longed si­lence and fail­ure to make a de­ci­sion on a re­newed com­plaint of ju­di­cial mis­con­duct against two High Court judges.

Jus­tice West­min James ruled last Tues­day that the ap­pli­cant had es­tab­lished an ar­guable case with a re­al­is­tic prospect of suc­cess.

The ap­pli­ca­tion was brought by Ronald Clive Roberts, act­ing as a lit­i­gant in per­son and as the “next friend” to his son, Isa­iah Jabari Em­manuel Roberts, who was born with cere­bral pal­sy fol­low­ing med­ical neg­li­gence in 2006. The le­gal bat­tle stem­ming from that neg­li­gence has spanned more than a decade.