Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson wants the newly installed Constitutional Reform Committee to initiate public discourse on social and political areas of the Constitution. They include the right to vote, property rights, the uncertainty surrounding the capital punishment of hanging as well as the now topical abortion rights which Patterson said are serious social and political matters that require public feedback and a strengthening of the relevant laws. He has been …
Justice Cicely Chase has just given the go-ahead for the Senate to meet with 18 members as she threw out preliminary arguments in the constitutional motion brought by Queen s Counsel Garth Patterson. The decision came as Prime Minister Mia Mottey began her Budget Speech in the House of Assembly. The judge has also ruled President the Most Honourable, Dame Sandra Mason, had properly convened Parliament when she appointed only 18 …
The language of The Constitution is clear, said Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson. It says the Senate shall consist of 21 senators and that word “shall” means it is mandatory, he declared. The senior counsel, representing former Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, made the submissions when the constitutional motion challenging the validity of Parliament continued before Justice Cicely Chase via Zoom yesterday. The motion is alleging that the Senate, with only 18 …