Dear Editor,

These are indeed desperate times, given the manic political environment that a collective of power-hungry desperados have attempted to create, with the aim of fulfilling their aim.
Politically affiliated to the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and willingly, in their employ, is a category of legal practitioners, all well known. Their frantic legal efforts, wholly premised on influencing the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), and attempting to embarrass the coalition government, continues to see them bring legal jurisprudence to its lowest levels.

The first example of Christopher Ram’s utterly ridiculous and failed legal challenge against the government over the latter’s right to adjudicate on contracts over $15M is a perfect example of glaring attempts at seeking to misinterpret the Court of Appeal’s ruling which verdict restored the government to its status quo and its right to function.
But desperate times are indeed producing desperate persons, as these “extraordinarily brilliant legal minds” have shown; this time, in the person of Sanjeev Datadin, in his filings to the CCJ, seeking its approval to halt the resumption of the National Assembly. One wonders on what grounds, he thought that such a hopeless legal non-starter would have succeeded?

Emphatically, it is a case of total disrespect for the court, and an insult to its collective integrity, particularly the judicial intellectuality of its distinguished panel of judges. No doubt that the language used in its dismissal of such a rude request, registered great disdain, when it stated in its judgement, “…it would be imprudent in these circumstances for the court to take the most unusual step of restraining the National Assembly from sitting as urged by the applicants.”

For any attorney, such language is indeed a serious chastisement and a rebuke, justifiably given because of the brazen attempt to achieve an aim that has no legal basis.

Regards,

Earl Hamilton