The per­ma­nent stop to ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings against Jack Warn­er is be­ing seen as a hol­low vic­to­ry by com­men­ta­tors, but al­so as a sig­nal that struc­tur­al re­form is re­quired with­in the na­tion’s jus­tice sys­tem.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath stressed that the rul­ing un­der­lined the need for State ac­count­abil­i­ty and hoped that this would be the main les­son emerg­ing af­ter sig­nif­i­cant fi­nan­cial and rep­u­ta­tion­al costs were in­curred as a re­sult of the 11-year le­gal bat­tle.

“The State must be care­ful in how they ap­proach mat­ters like these. And we’re not here talk­ing about the Jack Warn­er case alone, but any mat­ter, for in­stance. We bear in mind that this mat­ter went all the way up to the Privy Coun­cil and came back down. That costs mon­ey. That costs the State a lot of mon­ey,” said the po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist in a Zoom in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.