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Jun 20, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I read with some consternation a letter written in Thursday’s edition of Kaieteur News seeking to promote a particular lawyer for the promotion to Senior Counsel. It is clear that that letter was an orchestrated one and I am sure other lawyers can use the same method to promote his or her cause. Why should someone go to such low levels to beg for the award. One must earn it regardless of one’s office. The Editor ought to have refused to publish such letters when they seek to promote a particular person as other lawyers, I am sure can get phantom writers to do just that for them.
However, in an effort to bring back some respectability and transparency to the process of appointing Senior Counsels I would suggest that the following procedures be followed:
1. Let the Office or the Chancellor short list the names of 20 lawyers from among the applicants.
2. Send copies of the applications with the full resume of each of those 20 applicants to the practicing Senior Counsels of the Bar for each Senior Counsel to recommend from among these applicants. Each Senior Counsel shall have the right to state whether he agrees that any of those 20 applicants ought to be elevated to Senior Counsel. Each would have a maximum of 10 votes. Each Senior Counsel reserves the right to refuse to vote for any from amongst the 20 or he can vote for one or two or three but not more that 10.
3. Follow the same procedure with the Judges of the High Court and Court of Appeal.
4. The names of the 10 applicants who secure the highest number of votes to be sent to the Chancellor.
(This list should be made public in the interest of transparency).
5. The Chancellor in his own judgment decides on the number who he thinks deserve to be elevated and submits those names to the President for his approval.
If these simple procedures are followed then the accusations of political and other interferences would be removed and only then the dignity and respect for Senior Counsels would be restored. Let us return to some form of transparency, decency and respectability. Let us start with the Judiciary and Bar Association. Others will follow:
Jameel Hoosein
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