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eliteauto wrote:wagonrunner wrote:some could admit they were fooled. others would see nothing wrong.
ahhhhhhhh a year ago posts like some here were immediately labelled as PNM or having political tabanca, because the PP was unquestionable, even though ppl like myself were doing it out of love for country and no allegiance to the opposition, now some hadda hush out of shame. Hopefully it will be understood now when it is said we get the Go't we deserve, sycophancy is as bad as corruption
brams112 wrote:nobody said nothing on behalf of john jeremy getting silk although as someone said he never tried a case,,,,,strange,,,i say sour grapes,,,,,,
rfari wrote:This rell blatant. PP govt must have known that it wouldn't sit well with the masses. I doubt ppl so stupid.
Hook wrote:Khan made a statement some years ago regarding the appointment to the office of CJ (and why he claims he'll never get that post), the "clique" that exists in the judiciary and the threat to it's independence, the bestowing of said "silk" (and the lickbamcie required) and his views on de La Bastide's role in the CCJ. T'was a really good read.
There's way too much to sift thru in the online news archives, but he's correct that this was an established practice. It doesn't make it right, but this is the status quo. Serious reform has been needed for some time now.
bushwakka wrote:I find it absolutely ludicrous that judicial positions like this should be given out by political figures. All of this should come from within the judiciary.
brams112 wrote:same sheit diffrent days,,,,
Greypatch wrote:did anyone return the title ?
Silk system ‘disturbs’ Ramesh
“And this is a process in which the Prime Minister gave herself silk because the Prime Minister makes the appointment and therefore I believe both the Prime Minister and the Attorney General, have a duty to tell the country what criteria was adopted. What they used in making the award of Silk.
Unless that is done, the population of Trinidad and Tobago would not have any confidence in the appointment,” he said.
Greypatch wrote:The AG deserves it though
ray786 wrote:is this not the process years now..... ?????
Khan: Don’t blame AG, it was done before
Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012Yvonne WebbYvonne Webb
Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012.
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan cannot really be faulted in awarding silk to two sitting judges because there was precedence in the matter. That view on the controversial matter was given by Israel Khan SC yesterday. “When it was first announced I didn’t give it much serious thought because there was precedence for a chief justice to take silk,” he said. Khan recalled that former chief justice Clinton Bernard was awarded silk in 1988 by the attorney general of then National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) government.
So too, as a matter of fact, was former NAR prime minister Arthur NR Robinson, he noted. Khan also pointed out that a very senior silk, Karl Hudson-Phillips QC, was awarded silk while he was attorney general during the PNM administration in 1971. Hudson-Phillip has called on Archie and Kangaloo to forthwith return their instruments, bestowing the title senior counsel. He said the independence of the Judiciary was totally incompatible with holding a title which required service to the Crown/State/Government.
When Robinson and Bernard, not engaged in active practice at the Bar, were awarded silk in 1988, there also was public objection. Robinson, in a letter to the editor in September 1993, defending his acceptance of silk, said he made an application for silk as far back as 1981. He said he personallly delivered the application to the attorney general in the PNM administration at the time. Then attorney general Russell Martineau said he could see no objection, Robinson said.
He said years passed and he received no further official response and about 18 months after assuming the office of prime minister in the NAR Government then attorney general, Selwyn Richardson, presented him with an instrument appointing him to senior counsel. “Mr Richardson informed me that my application of 1981 was still lodged in the Red House with the comment ‘no objection’ on my letter,” Robinson said. Khan, commenting on the awarding of silk to Archie and Kangaloo said: “You really can’t fault the AG. He met precedent.”
Khan noted that he, too, was of the view that awarding silk to sitting judges ran against the separation of powers. “They are judges and are not representing people at the Bar. Silk is really for advocates.” Khan said there should be two categories in the awarding of silk. Heads of government departments should be awarded with honorary silk. Only advocates should be given real silk. He added: “It is with the greatest reluctance I say that the Chief Justice and Justice Kangaloo should consider whether they made a mistake in accepting silk.”
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