For a public service system built on constitutional independence, due process and clearly separated powers, those are extraordinary findings. The judgment concluded that the CPO “purported to act for the PSC” and thereby acted ultra vires in relation to the substantive transfer decision. It found no contemporaneous document or witness evidence establishing that the Governor-General, political actors or other decision-makers directed the PSC or CPO to transfer Thomas for political reasons. Thomas won because the administrative and constitutional process itself was found unlawful — not because the Court established that the transfer was politically directed. And it declared the purported transfer amounted to removal from Thomas’ substantive office.