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All of our Chancellors and Chief Justices have come from our own legal system

Jun 28, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Please allow me to make a small comment on an article that appeared in the Stabroek News and which was headed, ‘’Gov’t to advertise top judicial positions in the region’’.
In my opinion this is a very bad move.
ALL of our Chancellors and Chief Justices have ALWAYS come from our own legal system.
It is the essence of nation building in fledgling societies such as ours and especially where our legal system is not the same as any other in the Caribbean region.
Further, under our public service systems the issues of seniority and experience are legitimate and legal expectations of the terms and conditions of employment of persons in these and other positions.
This move, in my mind,  smacks of a ‘’colonial’’ mentality and is a retrograde step … that our own is NOT good enough.
It is a very weak move and does not take into account the particular prejudices of particular individuals that can actually cause more harm than good, as was evidenced recently in the Rodney Commission.
I must say that I am totally disappointed in the Coalition Government for going this route.
There are other options.
In particular I had questioned the wisdom of delinking the terms and conditions of the two (2) top positions in the judiciary from the rest of the judgeship.
I could not see the point of it.
Now it has become almost political.
The move should be to unify the entire judicial system as one unit of seniority etc, once again and for the positions to be occupied mostly, and especially our top positions, by Guyanese.
Juliet Holder-Allen
Attorney At Law

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