The challenge against a High Court ruling that gave the go-ahead for the Senate to meet and conduct business before all 21 members were appointed in March will be heard in the Court of Appeal on January 24 next year. Before then, Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson who is representing the appellant, former Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, and Queen’s Counsel Leslie Haynes, appearing for the respondent, Attorney General Dale Marshall, will have to provide written submissions to the court.It is understood that Brathwaite’s side had previously submitted a 63-page document to the Court of Appeal, but now has to hand in a condensed version on or before October 21. Haynes has to respond to that on or before December 16. Brathwaite is asking the Court of Appeal to overturn Ju
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 …
The constitutional motion brought by Adriel Brathwaite challenging the validity of Parliament was adjourned earlier today without a date being set pending the decision of the Court of Appeal. Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson has appealed Justice Cicely’s decision after she had ruled against his arguments on preliminary points. The judge, at that time, had also indicated the substantive matter was to be heard today. However, Patterson told the court this …
The legal battle over whether a Senate with 18 senators is properly constituted is far from settled and could be heading to the Court of Appeal by today, or at the latest, early next week. This was disclosed by Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson, the man representing former Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, whose constitutional motion was dismissed by the High Court on Monday. He said they believed the judge erred in …
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