Dear Editor,
If I were Arthur Williams or Dr Christopher Tufton I would vote with the Government to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of appeal.
One good reason is that the Caribbean justice system is one of good repute that we all created in co-operation with the regional law faculties and the two law schools.
Another is that it would be a demonstration of confidence in ourselves and our institutions.
A third is that the CCJ would provide the detachment from local passions that the Privy Council is praised for without the lack of knowledge of local conditions that makes the English institution less desirable.
My party's opposition to the CCJ might be born of naked opportunism, the hope to find a banana peel to make the Government skid, or else it is the residuum of the colonial mentality that feels some things are better done by the British. This attitude was expressed by some when we started training lawyers locally.
If I were Tufton and Williams, I would vote with the Government on this issue. It would be poetic justice.
Orville Brown
Bronx, New York
storyline6000@gmail.com
Tufton and Williams could make history
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If I were Arthur Williams or Dr Christopher Tufton I would vote with the Government to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of appeal.
One good reason is that the Caribbean justice system is one of good repute that we all created in co-operation with the regional law faculties and the two law schools.
Another is that it would be a demonstration of confidence in ourselves and our institutions.
A third is that the CCJ would provide the detachment from local passions that the Privy Council is praised for without the lack of knowledge of local conditions that makes the English institution less desirable.
My party's opposition to the CCJ might be born of naked opportunism, the hope to find a banana peel to make the Government skid, or else it is the residuum of the colonial mentality that feels some things are better done by the British. This attitude was expressed by some when we started training lawyers locally.
If I were Tufton and Williams, I would vote with the Government on this issue. It would be poetic justice.
Orville Brown
Bronx, New York
storyline6000@gmail.com
Tufton and Williams could make history
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