CBA Files Status Proceedings In Court

Friday, March 12, 2004

According to court records, the Caymanian Bar Association (CBA) filed an application on Wednesday for leave to apply for judicial review of last year's wholesale grants of Caymanian status by the Cabinet.

The application names the CBA as the plaintiff and the Cabinet of the Cayman Islands and the Attorney General as first and second defendants respectively.

The matter in respect of which relief is sought is said to be the decision by the Cabinet on 23 December 2003 purportedly to grant Caymanian status to the 2,850 people listed in the Cayman Islands Gazette No. 33/2003.

The CBA is seeking a declaration by the court that the purported grants of Caymanian status by the Cabinet were done unlawfully and an order quashing the grants in question.

No information is currently available as to when the matter will be heard by the court, but it is understood that it is usual practice in the case of applications for leave for judicial review for such requests to be dealt with expeditiously.

Notwithstanding earlier concerns expressed by David Pannick, QC, the well-known, London barrister retained by the CBA, as to the time limits for filing applications for judicial review, the CBA seems to have taken the point, in citing the total number of Cabinet status grants, that the time for filing started running from the date of the Gazette publication rather than the date of such grants.

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