With the Opposition drawing attention to a case in which he has been ordered by the High Court to surrender nearly a quarter-million dollars withheld from a client, Speaker of the House of Assembly Michael Carrington has decided to give up the chair for the time being.
In an unprecedented move yesterday, the lawyer opted to recuse himself from the chair rather than give details of a case in which Justice Jacqueline Cornelius ordered him to turn over funds received on behalf of wheelchair-using client John Griffiths from the sale of a property and bank deposits.
Speaking on “a matter of privilege”, the new leader of Opposition business in the House, Santia Bradshaw, raised the issue at the start of the first sitting following the Christmas recess, and with Carrington’s departure, Deputy Speaker Mara Thompson took over.
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