The adage that history creates it's own heroes and heroines is self evident in the increaseing political posturing assumed by Awa Sabally. Regard it as personal or not, Awa Sabally should be commended for having the audacity to stand up and make commentry on the most important judicial issues that affects the Gambian people. The autocratic modus operandi of the judicial sysytem is not beyond reproach as a many assume, a failing judicial sysstem is the clearest indication of a break down of democratic governance and recently we are wittnessing the erosion of the Gambian judicial sysytem and many people are losing faith in it. A fair judicial sysytem is a basic prerequisite to the evoultion or enhancement of democratic values. People must be ale to rely on the impartiality of the judicial system so as to use it to reress fundamental violations of enshrined rights. But if such an institution is seen not impartial and people cannot trust it's delivery then one of the most important institutions that ensures stability and continuity will falter. What we have seen happening recently in Gambia is many cases of ultra vires where authorities exceed their constitutional mandate to impose on the people illegal demands that have no legal basis. The manifestation of this could be catalogued as if one were writing an epitaph epitaph. To avoid a situation whereby whatever the authorities want the authorities get, Gambia must evolve it's own law reports or a special constitutional court that would be able to adjudicate complex constitutional disagreements, being a young democracy with a new constitution if such a body of law enforcement is not evolved a lot of important constitutional matters will not be resolved hence the arguements and counter arguements regarding the lawyers and the Attorney General, it is incumbent on the legislature to come up with such a proposal, because many of the legal rancours are centred around interpretaion of the constitutional provisions and this have allowed some high powered people to use this weakness in the system to the detriment of the people. Recent announcements to deatin journalist and Jammeh's Nawetaan band as well as the set-setal semi state of emmegency directives are clear cases of issues of national concern that have not been properly dealt with. The fact issues of constitutional provisions are now being oppenly contested by and between the citizens and the Attorney warrants a universal discourse, after all the constitutions embodies and defines how we co-exisit between each other as well as with state institutions hence unless a body of legal authority legal authority is accumulated there will always be some form of legal semantics that the lay man may not understand and that will not assisted legal practitioners to resolve fundamental disagreements. I hope llegally minded people will assiated to create a law center that will assist in creating data base of legal arguements that will serve as the point of refrence for our learnded colleaguesr. Citations without relivance will just complicate legal matters. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~