All the way to the CCJ

BRIDGETOWN (CMC):

Lawyers representing former attorney general Adriel Brathwaite says their client will be appealing Monday’s High Court decision that the Senate can lawfully meet with 18 appointed members although the constitution makes reference to 21.

“We are obviously disappointed with the decision and we intend to appeal,” attorney Garth Patterson told the online publication, Barbados TODAY, adding that the judge “ruled against us on all of the points and so we are going to appeal.

“I expect by the end of the week we’ll have an appeal,” he added.

Brathwaite, who served as attorney general 2010-18, had argued that the Upper House was not fully constituted, with only 18 of the 21 members appointed so far, and as a result the Parliament is not fully constituted.