For­mer Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire has ini­ti­at­ed le­gal pro­ceed­ings against the State, chal­leng­ing what he de­scribes as his un­law­ful and un­con­sti­tu­tion­al ter­mi­na­tion from of­fice.

On Sep­tem­ber 4, Dr Hi­laire’s le­gal team filed an ap­pli­ca­tion in the High Court seek­ing leave for ju­di­cial re­view. That ap­pli­ca­tion was grant­ed just four days lat­er, on Sep­tem­ber 8.

The at­tor­neys have since ad­vanced the mat­ter by fil­ing a fixed date claim form, seek­ing both ju­di­cial re­view and con­sti­tu­tion­al re­lief, cit­ing breach­es of Dr Hi­laire’s con­sti­tu­tion­al rights.