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May 14, 2009 News
The High Court case as it relates to the controversial Region Ten seat that the Alliance for Change insists it won based on factual data, recommenced yesterday in the High Court before Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.
The recommencement of the hearing after an extended hiatus, which included the lost and then found docket, fuelled much enthusiasm amongst the party supporters who converged at the High Court yesterday to be a part of the hearing.
Chairman of the Alliance For Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, prior to the hearing at 14:00hrs yesterday, said that he was happy for the recommencement of the elections petition hearing referring to the party’s opinion that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) attempted to stymie the process.
He said that in a case such as the present one where parliamentary seats are involved the matter should be dealt with as expeditiously as possibly. “The Chief Justice was asked that we have a trial as early as possible and he has more or less granted that here.”
The matter was previously being dealt with by then Chief Justice and now acting Chancellor Justice Carl Singh.
He noted that the part was hoping to be apprised as to what would be happening and would propose that the Chief Justice hear the matter on the merits.
“The merits of the matter have largely to do with simple arithmetic,” argued Ramjattan.
He added that what the attorneys for the PPP and GECOM were in effect doing was seeking to have the issue be a prolonged drawn out one with a heavy set of in limine submissions.
“That is malingering…The Chief Justice should indicate that we should get on with the substantive action which is who won Region Ten seat.”
There was a turn of events as the case was called and the appeal against the ruling by Justice William Ramlal.
This position, according to the Chief Justice, places him in a peculiar position in that he did not want to preempt the Court of Appeal and rule on the case.
The AFC attorneys argued that all of the submissions have already been argued and it was just for a ruling to be had.
According to Senior Counsel Ashton Chase, who was appearing on behalf of GECOM, it was Justice Carl Singh who should be making the ruling.
Stephen Fraser arguing for the AFC turned the Court’s attention to the ruling by Justice Ramlal which stated that the Chancellor “must go up and is not entitled to carry out the functions of the Chief Justice.”
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