Gov’t appeals ruling on parliamentary committees

Ian Chang

The Donald Ramotar-led administration has appealed the decision by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang to throw out its challenge of the numerical make-up of the National Assembly’s Committee of Selection and other key committees.

In a notice of appeal filed on Thursday, Attorney General Anil Nandlall asked that Chang’s May 2nd decision be set aside as it was erroneous in law.

He charged that in so far as Justice Chang addressed the power of the National Assembly to regulate its own procedure, “he failed to give due weight and effect to the subjection of this power to the