Aug 11, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – There is an important distinction in the way judges deliberate that appears to have become blurred in the present controversy now engulfing the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). That distinction is between judicial persuasion and judicial interference.

The history of the United States Supreme Court provides a useful illustration of this distinction. In 1954, the court delivered one of the most consequential judgments in American constitutional history in Brown v. Board of Education