Wednesday, May 13, 2015
HOUSE Speaker Michael Peart had to cast a vote on a Bill amending the Constitution to repeal provisions relating to appeals to the Privy Council yesterday to ensure the Government a twothirds majority to pass it.
In a rare display of partisan loyalty, all 63 members of Parliament turned up for the vote, the second attempt by a People’s National Party (PNP) majority in the legislature to Jamaica’s final appellate process from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England (JCPC) to a regional court 182 years its junior, the 10-year-old Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
