Georgetown : The Government’s Legal Advisor and Guyana’s Attorney General, Anil Nandlall is in dis-agreement with the recent ruling by Chief Justice Ian Chang on the composition of the Parliament’s Committee of Selection.
As such the Attorney General says this week the Government will be filing an appeal to Chang’s rule that the High Court had no business to interfere in the internal workings of Parliament.
Nandlall is convinced that the Government has a strong case pointing out that there are at least two interpretations of the relevant legislation under question.
He says that the Chief Justice choose one interpretation and he is looking to move to an more superior court in a bid to convince the Judges there that the alternative decisions is correct.
Asked if that bid fails, whether if the Caribbean Court of Justice will be the next avenue Nandlall says “we will cross that bridge when we get to it.”
At the beginning of this month Chief Justice Chang had ruled that Nandlall had been complaining to the wrong place about the composition of the Parliamentary Committee of Selection.
This body is essentially an umbrella body for the various Parliamentary Committees as it relates to their composition upon reconstitution of the committees as the 10th Parliament gets down to work.
Chief Justice Ian Chang dismissed the government’s case, saying that Nandlall made his complaint to the wrong forum and that the court cannot inquire or interfere in the proceedings of the National Assembly.
“The forum for a complaint of this nature is the National Assembly,” Chang said in a 30-page decision.
