Legal minds question balance of power in Caribbean governance during ‘Reasoning’

Key political figures and legal luminaries from across the legal, political and civic society landscape convened a “Reasoning” to interrogate a fundamental question for democratic governance: what latitude should the Court exercise when considering policy implemented by Parliament?

Dr Christopher Malcolm, principal of the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS), in his setting-the-stage presentation at the Reasoning event, under its Thought Leadership in Action at NMLS initiative, urged policymakers, jurists, academics, students and the public more generally to look beyond theoretical orthodoxies.

Citizens across the Caribbean region, he substantively contended, live under a structural illusion—a stark departure from standard civic learning that governance operates across three distinct and balanced branches.