Despite the existence of a Legal Practitioners Committee (LPC) decades have passed without an attorney-at-law being tried in court for misconduct, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran recently pointed out while noting that this may have resulted in the erosion of public confidence in the system to discipline lawyers.
Ramkarran, a former Speaker of the National Assembly touched on this issue in the June 4 edition of his weekly column “Conversation Tree” which is published in the Sunday Stabroek.
He explained that the LPC is the statutory body which hears complaints against lawyers and comprises 15 lawyers, 12 of whom are appointed by the Chancellor with the remainder being state officials from the Attorney General’s Chambers who are