Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, said Guyana could examine the mechanisms used to appoint a Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice in the upcoming countrywide consultation for constitutional reform.
According to a Department of Public Information (DPI) press release, the government will soon embark on widespread consultations on the reform process to upgrade archaic pieces of legislation embedded in the Guyana Constitution. The longstanding deadlock between any one sitting government and the opposition over the appointments of a Chancellor and a Chief Justice is one of the issues the government is hoping to remedy. The DPI release said that made these remarks while addressing a virtual panel on ‘Constitutional Reform and the Republic: The Judicial Selection Process in the Context of Administration of Justice and Democratic Strengthening’ on Sunday. The statement added that the Attorney General said Guyana has the extreme position where the appointments of the Chancellor and Chief Justice must be made by the head of the executive after consultations with the Leader of the Opposition. However, Nandlall reportedly said, ‘the system has not been working’.