ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE

CHARLES HAYFRON-BENJAMIN JSC

On 31 July 1998 we dismissed the plaintiff’s case. On even date we also dismissed the defendant’s (then the plaintiff’s) case against the Attorney-General (then the defendant) in Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice v. Attorney General [1999-2000] 1 GLR 697, SC. The present suit was obviously in reaction to the earlier writ issued by the Commissioner for Human Rights and Administrative Justice against the Attorney General wherein, in our view, the constitutional parameters of the commission’s functions were spelled out by us. On hindsight, we should have consolidated the two writs—that is to say, writ No 3/96 and writ No 17/96—and rendered a single judgment which would have covered all the issues raised by the parties. As it happened, we have furnished our reasons for dismissing the commission’s action under writ No 3/96. To the extent, therefore, that some of the issues set out for determination in this writ are covered by our reasons in …