Yvonne Ba­boolal

At­tor­neys Anand Ram­lo­gan and Prakash Ra­madar joined for­mer AG, Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj in con­demn­ing a jus­tice min­istry if it would give the Gov­ern­ment con­trol over the Ju­di­cia­ry. "I ful­ly con­demn it. Any at­tempt by this ad­min­is­tra­tion, un­der Patrick Man­ning, to have any lev­el of con­trol over the Ju­di­cia­ry is dan­ger­ous," Ra­madar said.

"Man­ning has al­ready shown dis­dain for the courts and dis­re­spect for its rul­ings." Ram­lo­gan said the lines of de­mar­ca­tion be­tween the Ex­ec­u­tive and the Ju­di­cia­ry in the Con­sti­tu­tion were deeply drawn.

"Any at­tempt to re­de­fine the bound­ary will cre­ate great scep­ti­cism and re­sis­tance. "The State and the Gov­ern­ment are lit­i­gants in the court, which must, there­fore, re­main in­de­pen­dent and free from po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence."

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T&T Con­sti­tu­tion on the Ju­di­cia­ry

�2 Judges and mag­is­trates de­cide what the laws mean.

�2 They are in­de­pen­dent and must make sure that the laws are fol­lowed by every­one, in­clud­ing the Gov­ern­ment.