Warning for the CJ

THE EDITOR: It is reported in the media that the Judicial and Legal Services Commission for the Caribbean Court of Justice will be sworn in by the Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago on August 21. As far as I am aware, there is no law in Trinidad and Tobago which as yet permits the Chief Justice to swear in members of that Commission or indeed which recognises the Commission. Unless Parliament passes such a law the members of the Commission if so sworn in will have no authority under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago. I hope that the Chief Justice is not made to participate in any such unauthorised and illegal swearing in and that those concerned with the Caribbean Court of Justice will follow the law and bring it into being.

MARY JOHNSON
St James