The Executive should be “marginalised” in the process of selecting and appointing judges, according to Senior Counsel Miles Fitzpatrick who has argued that the current constitution makes it virtually impossible to have a fully independent judiciary.
“The whole area of judicial independence should be reviewed in Guyana. Given the Burnham style Presidency that was criticized by the then opposition but later embraced by it after it won the 1992 election, it is virtually impossible to have a fully independent judiciary,” Fitzpatrick said at a function to honour a number of attorneys last Friday.
