Government had expected that outgoing Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang would rule that ministers Keith Scott and Winston Felix could not sit as non-elected members in the National Assembly and had already started preparations to deal with the judgement.
This is according to Scott, who told Stabroek News last evening, in an invited comment, that he and by extension the government feels that the ruling was a “mistake.”
Scott, who is the Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection with responsibility for labour issues,