Almost one month after he “partially appealed” the August 14th judgment by acting Chief Justice Roxane George on the removal of registrants from the Guyana Elections Commission’s national register, the Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams has filed for a stay of execution of the order issued with the ruling as he maintains that residency is a requirement for registration.
In the ruling, Justice George upheld the legality of the registration exercise but also declared that existing registrants could not be excised from a new voters’ list unless they were deceased or otherwise disqualified under Article 159 (2), (3) or (4) of the Constitution.
In summons filed on Friday, Solicitor-General Nigel Hawke and Assistant Solicitor-General Beverly Bishop-Cheddie requested on behalf of Williams “an order for an interim stay of execution of part of judgment and orders of the Chief Justice delivered on August 14 until the hearing and determination of the Summons filed.”
