Reasons Revealed
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Court of Appeal’s reasons revealed [updated]
Posted: 2009-03-13 16:23:12
The Court of Appeal cited the role of the electorate in determining a political representative as among its reasons for not awarding the West Portland constituency to the PNP’s Abe Dabdoub.
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In its 82-page written judgement handed down this afternoon, the appeal judges pointed to established precedent for their decision.
..In arriving at their decision to uphold the ruling for a by election, Justices Seymour Panton, Algernon Smith and Karl Harrison relied on the 1977 election case of Mattison v Junor.
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Mar 14 2009