BRIGADIER (rt’d) David Granger’s application for a Conservatory Order to stay further Government spending, will be heard in the High Court today, at 13:00hrs, before Acting Chief Justice, Mr Ian Chang.

The legal challenge advanced by the Main Opposition Leader on December 11, calls for a Conservatory Order to stay all or any further spending by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, or any other Government minister, on programmes disapproved or not authorised by the National Assembly until the hearing and determination of the matter.
Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Anil Nandlall, in a prior comment, had said, “In my submission, I maintained that at this stage of the proceedings, only the application of the Conservatory Order is properly before the Court, and therefore the Court should hear and determine that application first.”
The Opposition Leader is calling, too, for the courts to pronounce on the constitutionality of the combined Opposition’s disapproval of sums in the 2014 Budget, as well as a declaration on the restoration of those monies by the Finance Minister.
Budget 2014 saw A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC)
slash $37.5B from the budgetary allocation of $220B.
The Finance Minister, prior to the restoration of the sums cut from the Budget, noted that the Government would rely on the final ruling of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, made in January this year, regarding Budget cuts, and subsequently restored the sums slashed, via a financial paper valued $4.6B.
As it relates to the second call, Nandlall told the Chronicle that a determination of whether the matter will be heard is still to be made.