Leader of the Op­po­si­tion Dr Kei­th Row­ley is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the Priv­i­leges Com­mit­tee to­day as it con­tin­ues its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his al­leged con­tempt of Par­lia­ment on May 20.Row­ley will be ac­com­pa­nied by two of his four-mem­ber le­gal team, Michael Quam­i­na and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi. The two oth­er mem­bers of Row­ley's le­gal team are Dou­glas Mendes, SC, and Stu­art Young.

On May 22, Speak­er Wade Mark or­dered Row­ley be­fore the com­mit­tee af­ter the Op­po­si­tion Leader pre­sent­ed 31 e-mails pur­port­ed­ly sent from the ad­dress­es of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad­Bisses­sar, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan and oth­ers af­ter the procla­ma­tion of Sec­tion 34 of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act last year.Mark's rul­ing was made af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar pre­sent­ed a mo­tion of priv­i­lege against Row­ley.Yes­ter­day Row­ley said he was ful­ly pre­pared to co-op­er­ate with the com­mit­tee at its meet­ing which is sched­uled to be­gin at 10am at Tow­er D, In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain. It is the sec­ond meet­ing of the com­mit­tee on the mat­ter.

He said, "I will make my­self avail­able to hear what they have to say and I will be ready, will­ing and able."Speak­ing at yes­ter­day's news con­fer­ence at his of­fice on Charles Street, Port-of-Spain, Row­ley said the supreme law in the coun­try re­mained the Con­sti­tu­tion. "Even as Par­lia­ment makes the law, the Par­lia­ment's be­hav­iour is sub­ject to the supreme law, called the Con­sti­tu­tion," he said.

Row­ley said un­der the Con­sti­tu­tion he in­tends to seek nat­ur­al jus­tice from the Par­lia­ment or any oth­er en­ti­ty in the coun­try.He said he told his at­tor­neys to write to the In­tegri­ty om­mis­sion "in­di­cat­ing my will­ing­ness and avail­abil­i­ty to make avail­able any and all my elec­tron­ic de­vices and to hold my­self avail­able to co-op­er­ate ful­ly and un­re­served­ly with any in­ves­ti­ga­tion the com­mis­sion ini­ti­ates in this mat­ter."