PUP Accepts Fault For Voided PSA's?

The PUP today issued an interesting release commending Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall for a judgment in which he found that a former PUP government had acted wrongly. Legall found that six production sharing agreements were voice because no environmental assessment was carried out before the agreements were awarded, and contracts were given to companies that were unqualified. Those contracts were signed during the last PUP government, but today a party release says, quote, "The PUP fully supports the Court rulings and pledges to abide by these decisions in a PUP government."

Speaking of the other major judgment handed down by Legall last week, in which he found that short term contracts for Judges are unconstitutional, the PUP calls those, quote, "attempts by the Barrow Administration to undermine the Rule of Law and the independence of the Judiciary."

The government plans to appeal both judgments.

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