“Good rid­dance. Go your way.” These were the words ex­pressed by out­spo­ken Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan short­ly af­ter Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie an­nounced his de­ci­sion to re­tire at some point in the next year.

Speak­ing with the me­dia af­ter Archie an­nounced his re­tire­ment dur­ing his ad­dress at the open­ing of the 2025/2026 Law Term, Khan, who had re­peat­ed­ly called on Archie to re­sign over the past sev­en years, said he was pleased with the out­come.

Khan not­ed that he was crit­i­cised by con­ser­v­a­tive mem­bers of the le­gal fra­ter­ni­ty for his ar­dent views on Archie’s con­tin­ued tenure, es­pe­cial­ly ear­li­er this year when he sym­bol­i­cal­ly de­stroyed a por­trait of Archie that pre­vi­ous­ly adorned a wall of his of­fice along­side those of oth­er post-In­de­pen­dence chief jus­tices.