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Something more for the various associations of practitioners of the Bar to sleep on

Mar 25, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Following up on my letter published in KN Wednesday, March 05, 2014 under the caption ‘How many viewers knew that the Chief Justice of Belize was also a Guyanese’, it was brought to my attention that the late Aubrey Bishop, successively Chancellor of the Judiciary, and Professor at the law Faculty of the University of Guyana, (and more importantly, my life-long friend and colleague) had been omitted from the pantheon of Guyanese luminaries listed.
Perhaps it was overlooked that the list included those who actually practised in various capacities in the Regional courts.
Professor Bishop’s contribution had a niche dimension – in terms of his work in the organisational and administrative arena – at U.G and at the Faculty of Law at Cave Hill, in the first instance; followed by his active participation in the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission which was responsible for appointing the first panel of Justices of the Caribbean Court of Justice.
His appointment to the Commission coincided with the confirmation of Professor Harold Lutchman, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, to the Board of Trustees.
The above apart, there is reasonable cause to acknowledge Professor Bishop’s high rate of success in graduates from the Hugh Wooding Law School, some of whom have practised, and are practicing, in the Caricom Region.
It is against this educative background that one is apprehensive of the prospect of extending the current local cast of jurists, (by more than 50 per cent) into a theatre where (Sukulike) the selected players would not have been tested and evaluated by a legitimately functioning Judicial Service Commission – to confirm (or otherwise) a rather simplistic equivalency of quality to numbers.
More important, perhaps, is the eloquent silence on any recommendations from the expansive Justice Reform Project that could be relevant to this imminent engagement.
Something more for the various associations of practitioners of the Bar to sleep on!
E.B. John

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