Ramkarran, Bar President agree court could be approached over failure to appoint substantive Chancellor, CJ

 

Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran and the Guyana Bar Association both concur with President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Sir Dennis Byron’s position that recourse can be sought to the court over the failure to appoint a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and Chief Justice for over a decade.

Delivering the keynote address at the 37th Annual Bar Dinner last month, the CCJ head had said it was disappointing that no substantive Chancellor has been appointed after Justice Desiree Bernard’s departure and noted that having both offices being led by judges acting in respective capacities is “a most unfortunate state of affairs.”