HIERARCHY OF T&T LAWS
This week’s column was prepared with assistance from Ms Dawn Palackdharry Singh, attorney-at-law and lecturer at the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies.THE author Rosemarie Bell Antoine writes in her book Commonwealth Caribbean Law and Legal Systems, “the Constitution can be defined as a body of law containing the rules that determine the direction of the State, including the manner in which the State is organised and the body of fundamental principles according to which the State is governed.”It is the parent law by which all other laws are measured and is in essence the supreme law of the...
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