Caribbean News
June 23, 2007
The London-based Privy Council has ruled against opposition United National Congress legislator, Chandresh Sharma, who had brought a judicial review motion "in the public interest" against the Integrity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.
Sharma had argued that the commission's decision to not require the declaration of income, assets and liabilities for the year 2002 had been unlawful.
But in a ruling handed down earlier this week, the Privy Council, the island's highest court, ordered Sharma to pay the commissions' costs as well as the costs in relation to a discontinued motion he had withdrawn in relation to the commission's publicly available Register of Interests.
Panday in new bid to return to Parliament
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
Lawyers for former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday have filed a petition in the High Court seeking to determine his eligibility to sit in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament.
The lawyers are asking the court to rule that the "vacancy petition" be dismissed on the ground that the phrasing of the question referred to in the High Court by the House of Representatives is defective.
The motion to dismiss the petition suggests that the question which was referred to the High Court for resolution was unfair to Panday, since it disregarded the legal effect of the Appeal Court's ruling which quashed his conviction on charges of failing to declare a London Bank account to the Integrity Commission, while he served as prime minister in 1997, 1998 and 1999. The Appeal Court has ordered a re-trail.
Opposition wants CJ's suspension revoked
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
An opposition legislator has called on President George Maxwell Richards to revoke the suspension of embattled Chief Justice Satnarine Sharma, because of uncertainty surrounding the operations of a tribunal appointed to investigate allegations of misconduct against him....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
