Lawyers' chief: We're under attack

Thu, Mar 29th 2018, 09:00 AM

INCENSED over protracted delay in the appointment of a substantive chief justice, the Bahamas Bar Association yesterday suggested the constant undermining of democracy has pushed the country to an existential and constitutional crisis.

In an article titled “Our Judiciary Must Be Unfettered,” BBA President Khalil Parker details a longstanding “insidious process” underpinned by sweeping abuses of power by the government, a sleeping legislature, and what he defined as “slow and steady” attempts to create a compromised and impotent judiciary.

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