Since the Henry Greene matter generated such public interest, we present below a view of Chief Justice (ag) Chang’s ruling in the case.
By Ramon Gaskin, LLM (Moscow, 1967)
I have had an opportunity to read what I consider to be the seriously flawed decision of acting Chief Justice Ian Chang in the Henry Greene case in which the former Commissioner of Police formally applied to the court to stop the Guyana Police Force from acting on the advice of the DPP to charge him with rape.
The first thing that strikes me about the application is that it deals with “advice” allegedly tendered by the DPP to the Force rather than an actual charge, demonstrating the privileged position of the applicant. In the first place, no ordinary citizen being investigated by the police is ever permitted access to “advice” tendered by the DPP. But here, there is an application by a person under investigation with access to
