The Guyana Court of Appeal has affirmed the ruling of Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, SC nullifying the appointments of Vikash Ramkissoon and Sarah Browne as Parliamentary Secretaries.
A main contention of the Appellants, had been that Chief Justice George fell into error, when she relied on the case of Desmond Morian v. Attorney General forming precedent by which she was bound.
Dismissing the appeal, the appellate court found that Browne and Ramkissoon were not lawful members of the National Assembly since their names were on their party’s list, but were not among the 33 names extracted to take up seats in the National Assembly.
As a result, Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory who read the Court’s ruling, stated that the Appellants could not qualify as being non-voting members of the National Assembly; as Parliamentary Secretaries.
