With government and the opposition continually clashing over legislative drafting and vetting, former Clerk Frank Narain says the time may have come for the National Assembly to have its own legal counsel.
Narain said that during the 51 years he served the Parliament Office, the question of legal counsel for the National Assembly was irrelevant since the configuration of the National Assembly was different. “
“We had a different configuration of parliament in those days; a government always had a majority in the
