DATE: Tuesday 26th June 2018
LOCATION: COURTROOM 1, CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
134 HENRY STREET, PORT OF SPAIN
TIME: 10:00AM AST The Attorney General of Guyana v Cedric
Richardson (Live stream link: http://bit.ly/2InENu8)
11:00AM AST Dean Boyce, British Caribbean Bank Ltd &
Lord Michael Ashcroft King v Judicial and Legal Services
Commission (Live stream link: http://bit.ly/2tAhRCs)
SYNOPSIS OF CASES:
The Attorney General of Guyana v Cedric Richardson
Judgment will be delivered in this matter where Guyana’s
AG is seeking to overturn the Court of Appeal’s decision
which held that an Act passed by the government to amend
Article 90 of the Constitution by introducing new criteria or
eligibility to run for the office of President of the Republic
indirectly breached Articles 1 and 9 of the Constitution.
Those articles give the electorate of Guyana the right to
elect a President of their choice. Among other things, there
was an amendment which prohibited candidates who had
served two presidential terms of office from serving a third
term.
Dean Boyce British Caribbean Bank Ltd & Lord
Michael Ashcroft King v JLSC
The appellants in this appeal are challenging the decision of
the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) to
refuse to move forward with a complaint against a judge.
They are asserting that the JLSC should determine whether
the Hon Mr Justice Awich, currently a Justice of Appeal in
the Court of Appeal of Belize, should be investigated for
misbehavior and/or inability from concerns over “excessive
delays in the delivery of judgments” while he was a Judge
of the Supreme Court.
