Acknowledging that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) “knocked us down on every point conceivable” on the validity of the no-confidence vote against the government, Attorney General Basil Williams SC on Tuesday said the administration would accept the ruling.
Guyana’s final court also declared that President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of retired judge James Patterson as the Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) Chairman was flawed and Williams acknowledged that it means that he was not validly appointed.
“There is no other course of appealing, so we had said that we will abide by the judgment,” he told reporters outside the Court of Appeal, where he and the other lawyers involved in the matters had gathered for the rulings, which were delivered via video conference by the CCJ in Trinidad.
