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Aspects of the judicial system have sickened me to the core

Oct 31, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
Kindly permit me space to respond to a letter written by Mr. Emile Mervin and entitled, “Is the State a faithful partner with which any professional can blindly strike an agreement?” In my opinion, this letter has captured, to some extent, the true state of affairs with regards to the vindictive and hate-filled “manhandling” of my career by certain named persons.
I would like to refer Mr. Mervin, and other interested persons who want to know the truth, to read the online issue of the July Edition of the “Guyana Observer News,” which is available on the Internet and which is also available, in species, at the Mark Benschop Foundation.
The whole truth of the conspiracy to assassinate my professional character is spelt out there in that article like a Bible — chapter and verse.
There are things about the workings of the judicial system that have sickened me to the core; things that at this point must remain as secrets, since I will never “rat” on a system that I have served.
Anyone with eyes could have seen that there was never any cause for any kind of professional complaint against me.
I was not guilty of any kind of professional misconduct, and never could have been found guilty of any such thing.
Mr. Mervin is quite right in his deduction that there is a new set of state action to “get rid” of certain people. It is a new and deadly innovation. I am the living proof that it is operating.
The whole scenario was staged-managed to get certain “friends” to dirty my reputation, so as to lay the groundwork to get rid of me, since I presented a formidable challenge as an immensely strong, competent and incorruptible judicial functionary.
The people who wanted me gone laid their plans carefully, and they succeeded in fooling a lot of unwary people that this particular person was a problem.
The only “problem” that I was to certain people is that I had operated as a sort of filter for fair play within the judicial system, and as the real medium for “judicial review.” I can say that about myself; I do not know about anyone else, but the fact that I had been singled out for special vindictive and malicious treatment shows that I must have been succeeding in doing what was right in law to be done.
Judicial Review is a concept of a specific branch of the law which prevents the state or its agents from taking certain actions which can result in harm to its citizens.
This concept is explained much better in the article in the Guyana Observer News article, to which I have referred above.
I read the statement from a top source that “The former Chief Magistrate will be paid”; but , in my opinion, prompt payment of any outstanding benefits and debts is not part of the culture.
Unprincipled behaviour from those who took oath of office to serve the Guyanese people has been a part of my daily judicial diet for a very long time, over a decade and a half now, so the statement comes across to me as only so much platitude to be “mouthed,” and nothing more.
I will believe it when I see it. I fail to see any real commitment in the statement, since I could find no reference to any sort of completion date, or even immediacy of action. So much for that!
How I pray for some display of good faith and, Good Lord, some basic decency in some of the things that are happening around me.
But, Almighty God is in charge; and as old people would say: “What goes around comes around.”

Juliet Holder-Allen (LL.B)
Chief Magistrate (Ret’d)

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