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Khan: Don’t blame AG, it was done before

CJ Ivor Archie receives his Senior Counsel appointment from President George Maxwell Richards
CJ Ivor Archie receives his Senior Counsel appointment from President George Maxwell Richards

guardian.co.tt
January 05, 2012

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan cannot really be faulted in awarding silk to two sitting judges because there was precedence in the matter. That view on the controversial matter was given by Israel Khan SC yesterday. “When it was first announced I didn’t give it much serious thought because there was precedence for a chief justice to take silk,” he said. Khan recalled that former chief justice Clinton Bernard was awarded silk in 1988 by the attorney general of then National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) government.
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