UK Professor Audrey Butt-Colson gave the first testimony by audio visual link in the High Court yesterday as Justice Roxane George continued hearing an ongoing Amerindian land rights case.
The professor from Oxford University answered questions posed to her by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes to establish her expertise as a witness in the case. Hughes is appearing as counsel for the applicant in the Akawaio and Arekuna Amerindian land rights case from the Upper Mazaruni District—Van Mendelson v the Attorney General.
Hughes, using the Evidence (Amendment) Bill 2008, had applied to the court for Professor Butt Colson to testify by audio-visual link. He secured the order
