“It’s really quite shocking,” Daly told the Guardian newspaper in response to the awarding of the title of Senior Counsel to the Chief Justice and Kangaloo last week by Attorney General Anand Ramlogan last week.
He joins other prominent lawyers, including two former Attorneys General, who has been critical of the development.
“It cannot be right," Daly said. "Judges ought not to accept awards or discretionary appointments from the political executive, unless some clearly defined long-existing practice exists," he added, noting that the awards raise a “whole hornet’s nest of unseeming possibilities.”
“It cannot be right," Daly said. "Judges ought not to accept awards or discretionary appointments from the political executive, unless some clearly defined long-existing practice exists," he added, noting that the awards raise a “whole hornet’s nest of unseeming possibilities.”
Daly made it clear that in his opinion a judge ought not to be asking the political executive for anything. "The executive is not supposed to be offering them anything and they should not be accepting anything,” he declared.
Daly said the Law Association must make its position on the matter be known as soon as possible.
The former vice-president of the Law Association has also commented on the matter.
Hendrickson Seunath said, “What is astonishing and embarrassing is sitting judges taking silk. Once you become a judge you can no longer advocate. Whether the award was given to them or whether they applied, it ought not to have happened.”
He added: “It was self-serving...It is embarrassing to the profession and the Judiciary, making non-advocates silk, it was never meant for them."
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