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Some enterprising lawyer should jump at the opportunity to challenge the legality of these tests

May 26, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
How things have changed since I started practice so many years ago, when lawyers sensing some kind of lawlessness would, without being retained of of their own accord, file an applications to the Courts for a ruling as to what they perceived to be a wrong was legal or not.
Take for example this – what I call consider to be illegal rubbish – This G.R.A. polygraph testing of its employees and the subsequent firing of its employees who fail the test. Employees who have not been accused of or found guilty of any matter related to the execution of their job and of course the complete ruining of their character any work potential.
Mr. Editor – May I draw the attention of my colleagues out there to the provision of the Justices Protection Act Ch 5:07 of the Laws of Guyana – Which provide for any action against the Government “shall not be commenced against
the Justice until one calendar month at least after notice in writing of the intended action has been delivered to him” Sect 8(2) and next — “No action shall be brought against a justice…unless the action is commenced within six calendar months after the act complained of has been committed” Sect. 8(1).
Mr. Editor, I hope that by this letter, some enterprising lawyer out there will jump at the opportunity to challenge the legality of these tests — voluntary or not — even pro bona — and that those so egregiously wronged would seek legal redress before it is too late.
As an afterthought Mr. Editor —1 wonder who in Guyana has the necessary expertise or equipment to carry out the polygraph test, a test that is so unreliable that nowhere in the civilised world is it approved for use in the court of law and whether the results of these tests will be available for scrutiny if challenged.
Randolph Joseph Eleazar

 

 

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