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NewsMail Afternoon Edition Mon 20 Jan, 2014 Top Stories More Top Stories » Nauru's chief justice says visa cancellation is politically motivated By Jeff Waters, staff Nauru's Australian-based chief justice, Geoffrey Eames, says a decision to ban him from the country and to deport the nation's chief magistrate is politically motivated. Nauru's president Baron Waqa fired chief magistrate Peter Law yesterday and ordered him to leave the country. When Mr Eames issued injunctions to try to stop Mr Law's deportation, his own visa to return to the country this morning was cancelled. Mr Eames says the Nauruan government did not agree with rulings made by Mr Law, which stopped the government from deporting three resident foreign nationals - two of them Australian. 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