Future of budget cuts appeal uncertain

Arguments in the appeal of the 2012 budget cuts ruling have started but the future of the case is uncertain following the recent change in government.

Attorney Khemraj Ramjattan had moved to the Court of Appeal last February to contest the ruling by acting Chief Justice Ian Chang that the National Assembly acted “unlawfully and unconstitutionally” when the APNU and AFC used their one-seat majority to reduce the Donald Ramotar