DR MARIA AGARD and her two attorneys walked out of today’s meeting two hours after it started at the Barbados Labour Party’s Roebuck Street, St Michael headquarters.
“We have decided to advise our client not to submit herself to such an arbitrarily constituted group of persons who are sitting in judgement as it were in this matter,” attorney Hal Gallop told members of the media.
He charged that the proceedings were not governed by the rules of natural justice.
“We have found it extremely disappointing that the persons in charge of a tribunal cannot see that a tribunal that has already acted in judgement and voted in a manner that suggest that Dr Agard should be brought to be tried cannot now sit in judgement over her.”
Gollop said Agard had already been tried in the court of public opinion.
“You cannot be judge in your own cause. Every single member in there, because of what has transpired in this matter, is disqualified. Whether they want to set up a different kind of body is a matter for them. “We cannot submit our client to that kind of palm tree justice,” he stated.
Dr Agard, the Member of Parliament for Christ Church West, had been summoned to a meeting by the National Council of the Barbados Labour Party to answer nine charges. (MB)
