Speaker appeals budget ruling

Raphael Trotman

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge the ruling by Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang  in the 2012 budget cuts case and is asking for the judgment to be reversed and/or set aside.

In the Notice of Appeal which was filed on February 25 by attorney at law Khemraj Ramjattan, it was stated that Trotman was dissatisfied with the entire decision, more particularly paragraph two, which was handed down on January 29, 2014.

Trotman was listed as the Appellant in the court documents