Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday set June 11 as the next date for arguments to begin in the government’s case challenging cuts to the 2012 national budget.
This comes after a seven-month break in the case after Justice Chang had given a preliminary ruling and on the request of Attorney General Anil Nandlall who had penned a letter dated April 11, 2013. That letter reached Justice Chang four days before Speaker Raphael Trotman upheld the National Assembly’s right to amend the budget, while saying it could not be bound by the preliminary ruling of Justice Chang. Justice Chang had found that while the National Assembly had the power to reject or pass the budget,