Gov’t unhappy with Chang ruling on Selection Committee – Luncheon

Government yesterday expressed its unhappiness with the ruling of Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang which saw its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection being thrown out and said it will be studying the implications of the ruling.

“Certainly it is a decision we are unhappy about and it has implications for the way in which we would be functioning and the way in which the Tenth Parliament would function and that is a matter under study,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon told reporters yesterday when asked about the ruling.

Justice Chang ruled that the court had no