DPP passes on CJ issue

“In arriving at this decision the DPP paid due regard to the fact of an earlier complaint involving the Honourable Chief Justice which is now engaging the attention of the court,” the DPP said in a statement issued yesterday.

“The DPP is not in any way involved in the review of the matter submitted for his attention by the Honourable Attorney General in his letter dated May 11, 2006 and any decision that is required thereon,” the statement added.

The AG had referred the complaint of Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls to the DPP and to the Commissioner of Police for appropriate action.

The release stated that the DPP gave specific instructions to the delegated person to “take decisions you consider necessary to be performed by the Director of Public Prosecutions under Section 90 (3) of the Constitution.”

But the instruction concluded with this sentence: “For the removal of all doubt, you are to make your own independent decision in this matter.”