Attorneys for Nazar and Azruddin Mohamed have escalated their challenge to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), demanding urgent disclosure of internal records and asking that CCJ President Justice Winston Anderson take no further part in proceedings involving the two men amid allegations of judicial impropriety and political interference.

The demands were contained in a letter dispatched last Friday, August 14, to the Registrar and Chief Marshal of the CCJ by attorneys Roysdale Forde S.C., Siand Dhurjon and Damien Da Silva. The correspondence followed the July 29 hearing of the Mohameds’ appeal and comes as the regional court faces intense scrutiny over leaked internal communications among its judges. On July 29 the CCJ ruled no bias exists in the issuance of the Minister of Home Affairs’ Authority to Proceed (ATP) on the extradition matter.

The lawyers said the published correspondence raises questions directly connected to their clients’ extradition appeal and argued that the allegations cannot responsibly be ignored.