Tied to Privy Council forever

We appear to be arriving at the point of seeking Privy Council permission to even breathe in TT . Is it that if and whenever the Opposition UNC does not get judgments in its favour it will seek to be facilitated by to Privy Council? Our senior legal fraternity appears transfixed by its own importance and is not entirely immune from “he say, she say, they say and them say.” There is a creeping feeling of self-inflicted disrespect. The Remand Yard is full of people waiting for their cases to be heard and the legal fraternity is in paralysis over right and wrong .

If indeed in politics, love and war image is everything, then the Opposition UNC must surely believe that God is a lawyer and that is a flawed image. Who will step in and save the UNC in 2020? God or the Privy Council? I must admit that when Reginald Dumas won his case for private citizens to seek redress at the Privy Council level for constitutional concerns, I did not feel joy .

The feeling was, “What has this man done?” He may have inadvertently opened the way for frivolous and vexatious appeals that will leave us permanently politically paralysed .

Not every victory is a victory of uncomplicated good .

LYNETTE JOSEPH Diego Martin