WITHOUT any fanfare, befitting her quiet yet diligent nature, president of the Law Association (LATT) Lynette Seebaran-Suite received her appointment as Senior Counsel (SC) on from President Christine Kangaloo on Friday.
THE Prime Minister says naming unsuccessful silk (senior counsel) applicants in the Parliament would result in their being scandalised, so he will not do so. He was responding to questions in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. On Monday, President Christine Kangalooconferred silk on 17 attorneys at a ceremony at President's House in St Ann's. They included
BY THE END of Tuesday’s more-than-hour-long media conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, the Prime Minister had provided only the weakest of defences to explain his failure to reform the process by which senior-counsel status is granted. “That’s the Constitution,” Dr Rowley simply said. “That’s the one we are working with until it is
ATTORNEY General (AG) Reginald Armour, SC, on Tuesday said he carried out his constitutional duty to properly consult the Chief Justice (CJ) on applicants to become senior counsel ("take silk") and in his own discretion went further to seek the input of the Law Association (LATT) which opted not to discuss but to instead call for a whole new process of approving new silks.
ATTORNEY Kerwyn Garcia said it was the Government – not his wife President Christine Kangaloo – that supported his application to become a senior counsel (SC), under a process whose final approval is set out in the Constitution. He was speaking to reporters minutes after Kangaloo presented instruments conferring SC status (also commonly known as