Govt claims Trinity Cross victory

In a statement, Attorney General John Jeremie stated that the State was “pleased with its success in the matter and is studying the judgement in some detail.”

Furthermore, Jeremie stated, Justice Jamadar’s ruling, “including in his finding that the use of the Trinity Cross may ‘amount to indirect adverse effects of discrimination against Hin-dus and Muslims,’ was not inconsistent with the arguments put forward by the Attorney General in the matter.”

However, Jeremie said, Justice Jamadar, just like the State, recognised that “neither the letters Patent nor the Trinity Cross created and administered by and through it, “can be invalidated for inconsistency with the provisions of Section 4, of the Constitution.”

The AG said Jamadar stated clearly in his 80-page ruling that “by reason of the existing law provision in the 1976 Constitution, the Letters Patent establishing the Constitution of the Order of the Trinity and the Trinity Cross, were deemed to be existing law and therefore cannot be invalidated for inconsistency with the Section 4 rights and freedoms under the 1976 Constitution. In the circumstances the Applicants’ action is dismissed. Each party is to bear its own costs”