The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a stay of execution granted by Justice B.S. Roy on a judgment made by former Chief Justice Ian Chang, who had ruled that the paper committals process under the Sexual Offences Act was unconstitutional.
“This court declines to discharge or vary the order for stay of execution of the order of the then Chief Justice in Chambers,” Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards stated when the matter came up in the Appellate
