FEATURE | The trembling of a leaf – Somerset Maugham and the Commission of Inquiry

FEATURE | The trembling of a leaf – Somerset Maugham and the Commission of Inquiry

Australian judge David Ashton-Lewis, whose Commission of Inquiry report has produced something of a constitutional crisis, is said to love the writing of Somerset Maugham. That’s why he named one of his children after the British playwright-novelist-turned-spy, according to someone who knew the judge from his first tour of duty in Fiji from 1992 to 1996. For those who came in late: Justice Ashton-Lewis’s damning conclusion in his report was that…