Almost nine months after an appeal was filed to challenge the government favoured ruling in the 2012 budget cuts case, no date has been set and this delay is a cause of concern for attorney at law Khemraj Ramjattan.
Ramjattan, acting on behalf of the Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman, who was listed as a defendant in court documents filed by the Attorney General on behalf of the government, on February 25 filed documents to contest the final decision of acting Chief Justice Ian Chang, which in part said that the National Assembly acted “unlawfully and unconstitutionally” by