Attorney General Anil Nandlall has defended the government’s failure to circulate the proposed budgets for constitutional agencies last year, while blaming the constitutional crisis created by the former APNU+AFC administration for forcing emergency actions to preserve the effective functioning of the state.
Nandlall cites the doctrine of necessity in his submission in response to the lawsuit filed by APNU+AFC Member of Parliament David Patterson, who is contending that budget allocations to constitutional agencies was done in contravention of the law.