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Tivoli COE: Is the Commission acting ultra vires?

On the publication of the Public Defenders Interim Report that the recommended a public commission of enquiry, we have argued that its focus should be  state-centric . As such it should not seek to replicate the work undertaken by the Office of the Public Defender ( mainly compensation) ; neither should it be concerned with the criminal aspect ( primarily because the unavailability of the forensics and that matters dealing with criminal culpability is the remit of the Director of Public Prosecutions ).  In a Gleaner interview published Tuesday, May 14, 2013  : "Attorney say yes to Tivoli enquiry" (carried on the front page) I was "strongly recommending" that the proposed commission "should consider the granting of immunity to persons summoned to testify in order to get to the truth" Not to do so would run the distinct possibility that the principal decision-makers and state operatives  being instructed by their attorneys to guard against self-incriminat...