At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan said leg­is­la­tors should be the ones to blame for the pas­sage of bad laws and not those who draft­ed it.Ram­lo­gan said so in a brief speech at Wednes­day's Com­mon­wealth Le­gal Draft­ing cock­tail re­cep­tion at the Hy­att Re­gency, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain.He told the le­gal drafts­men who at­tend­ed that with­out their link in the chain of the law­mak­ing process there can be no laws.

"You must take cred­it for good laws, you must ob­vi­ous­ly pass the cred­it for bad laws on to the law­mak­ers who did not un­der­stand what you draft­ed and did a ter­ri­ble job in the de­bate," Ram­lo­gan said.In Sep­tem­ber last year, dur­ing a spe­cial sit­ting of the Par­lia­ment, Ram­lo­gan blamed leg­is­la­tors for the pas­sage of the con­tro­ver­sial Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Amend­ment Bill 2011. The leg­is­la­tion, which was pro­claimed in Au­gust, was re­pealed two weeks lat­er.

The law was re­pealed as some said it was ap­proved to ben­e­fit busi­ness­men Ish Gal­barans­ingh and Steve Fer­gu­son, who are want­ed in the Unit­ed States to an­swer fraud and mon­ey-laun­der­ing charges.