Maharaj wants to know why CJ still in office ‘as though nothing happened’

Se­nior Coun­sel Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj says he can­not un­der­stand how Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie could con­tin­ue to sit in of­fice “as though noth­ing has hap­pened” fol­low­ing the Privy Coun­cil’s rul­ing in the Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar mat­ter.

At a news con­fer­ence at his law cham­bers in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, Ma­haraj, who was part of her le­gal team, gave de­tails of the events that led to Ay­ers-Cae­sar be­ing “threat­ened and co­erced” by the Ju­di­cial and Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion and re­sign­ing as a judge on April 27, 2017.

Fol­low­ing the Privy Coun­cil’s judg­ment on March 24, there have been calls, in­clud­ing from the As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers and Se­nior Coun­sel Is­rael Khan for Archie’s res­ig­na­tion.