Case closed: CJ rules against Rohee gagging

Ian Chang

In what is likely the final chapter of an intense court battle, acting Chief Justice Ian Chang yesterday found that the parliamentary motion last year by Opposition Leader David Granger to gag Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee was “legally misconceived in that such a motion, if passed, could not be implemented by the Assembly without infringing his constitutional rights.”

Justice Chang pointed out that no allegation was made that Rohee as a