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Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Jagdeo Singh be­lieves it might be time for Par­lia­ment to de­vel­op its own code of con­duct.

Ad­dress­ing the Post-Elec­tion Sem­i­nar at the Par­lia­men­tary Com­plex in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Singh said par­lia­men­tary ac­count­abil­i­ty is the cor­ner­stone of pub­lic trust, and a struc­tured and ex­ten­sive code of ethics for both Hous­es may be re­quired.

He ex­plained that lawyers present would un­der­stand the im­por­tance of clear­ly out­lined stan­dards, re­fer­ring to the Ban­ga­lore Prin­ci­ples of Ju­di­cial Con­duct, which es­tab­lish glob­al bench­marks for judges.