…Selection Committee remains at 5
ACTING Chief Justice  Ian Chang yesterday dismissed a Notice of Motion brought  by Attorney General  Anil Nandlall  and ruled in favour of the Selection Committee Motion advocated by the Parliamentary Opposition. The Government had submitted a Selection Committee of 10   with
(1)  PPP/C –   5
(2)  APNU  –   4
(3)  AFC    –   1
But the Opposition, with a single majority, proposed that the Committee be of the size of nine members, composed  as follows.
(1)  PPP/C  –  4
(2)  APNU   –  4
(3)  AFC     –  1

The latter was preferred.
But the Attorney General moved to the court with the hope of having the matter changed, as he believes that this composition of the Committee of Selection is violative of the principle of proportionality as  contemplated by the Constitution,  since in this configuration, the PPP/C, with 32 seats, has the same representation in the  Committee as APNU, who only secured  26 seats.
Therefore, the PPP/C has only 44.44%  representation with 32 seats, and APNU has the same 44.44%  representation, but with only 26 seats, leading to a  disproportionality of almost five seats.
However, the  Chief Justice dismissed  the motion and affirmed that  the Opposition was correct, in relation to law.
The  Attorney General, along with the Deputy Solicitor General, Mr. Rameshwar Harnanan,  and  Senior Counsel, Mr. Ashton Chase, represented the government, while  the respondents, David Granger and Raphael Trotman, were represented by  a battery of lawyers, led by Senior Counsel Mr. Rex Mc Kay, and included  Kemraj Ramjattan,  Nigel Hughes, Basil Williams,  Neil Boston, Christopher  Ram and Roysdale Forde.