Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday argued that the Supreme Court’s role as the guardian of the constitution gives it automatic jurisdiction to hear his motion challenging the numerical composition of several key parliamentary committees.
The hearing into the constitutional motion filed by Nandlall continued before acting Chief Justice Ian Chang and during a more than two-hour long presentation, Nandlall attempted to challenge arguments that the court had no authority to interfere in the affairs of Parliament.
David Granger, the leader of the list of candidates of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) as well as Leader of the Opposition, and Raphael Trotman, the leader of the list of candidates of Alliance for Change (AFC) as well as Speaker of the National Assembly, are named as the respondents in the motion, in which
