Submitted by Chefleur
What is becoming of this Judiciary?
First this there was the following report:-
Nandlall challenges Magistrate’s grant of bail to Brazilians found with cocaine
August 18, 2021
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has moved to the High Court to challenge the July 22, 2021, decision by Senior Magistrate Alex Moore to approve bail for two Brazilian men, who were busted with close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine.
Moore had granted bail in the sum of $3 million each to Salem Nobrega De Alencar, 64, and Andre Luiz Pereira, 31.
The men were charged with illegal entry and trafficking of 453 kilogrammes of cocaine after their plane crash-landed at Orealla, Region Six, on May 20.
Now there is this report:-
Then there was this:
This decision was not appealed and overturned thus it stands as a precedence.
Magistrate erred in law by dismissing misconduct charge against Winston Jordan – Attorney General
May 17, 2023 News
Kaieteur News- Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said that Senior Magistrate Leron Daly erred in law when she dismissed the misconduct charge levelled against former Finance Minister Winston Jordan.
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Jordan was freed of the charge alleging he misconduct himself in public office by selling State property way below market value to BK Marines Limited at a price that was grossly undervalued.
However, in a statement following the Magistrate’s decision, the Attorney General said that “The learned Magistrate predicated her ruling on a finding in law that as Minister of Finance
One error in judgement whether done innocently or by malice can cause irreparable harm to a whole family. In civil cases the remedy is to appeal. Mr Editor appeals cost ONE MILLION DOLLARS in Guyana. Do you get my drift?
As the Learned AG and Minister of Legal Affairs cited:
- Such an elementary egregious error has excited great public concern within a few hours and
inevitably will shake the public confidence in the administration of justice. For to the public, it
appears that they are different standards being applied to different persons by the
administration of justice,” Nandlall said.
Why are the Officers not being guided by the Law and precedents? What is going on?
A more succinct way to put this practice is: THE LAW IS AN ASS …
Yet the popular myth persists that the law should be to equated with justice. It is not. At best, these concepts are on nodding terms because the law has a much closer acquaintance with wealth and power than it does with justice. In the face of abusive political power or very deep pockets, justice can be totally ignored in the legal process.
“Then the law is an ass,” said Mr Bumble in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist when he was told that the law considered his wife to act under his direction. Few truer words have been said — or written. And not only in relation to who dictates to whom. Because the law, that body of regulations that can shelter stupidity, pedantry, vindictiveness and sheer bloody-mindedness behind the veil of justice, is very frequently an ass.”
https://terrybellwrites.com/2012/07/27/why-the-law-is-often-an-ass/
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