Acting Chief Justice Roxane George SC has set July 20 for arguments in the action filed by APNU+AFC Chief Whip Christopher Jones, who is challenging the appointment of Clifton Hicken as acting Commissioner of Police.
At a hearing on Friday afternoon, there was a brief but heated exchange between Attorney General Anil Nandlall SC, who asked the Court for an opportunity to file an affidavit in defence, and Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, who vigorously opposed that application.
Forde’s contention was that the State was beyond the legal time-limit in which such an affidavit should have been filed and he noted that what the AG was essentially attempting to do was rely on documents being filed way after Hicken’s controversial March 30 appointment.
