Aug 13, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Recent discussions in Guyana regarding the leaking of internal correspondence among Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judges have, predictably, turned the court’s ruling in the Mohamed extradition case into a political talking point. However, a clear reading of the 257-page judgment reveals there was no disagreement among the judges on the central question of whether bias invalidated the Authority to Proceed (ATP).

The judgment addresses a seminal issue in Guyanese extradition law. It examines whether bias can vitiate a Minister’s decision to issue an Authority to Proceed (ATP) under the Fugitive Offenders Act. The substantive legal question before the Caribbean Court of Justice was whether the Minister of Home Affairs’ decision to issue the ATP was tainted by bias to the point of nullity.