Deputy Dubras said his dissent had been deleted from the final report, which was why he decided to make a statement to the States today to make clear his position.
The retiring St Lawrence Deputy said he attended two meetings late in the process and dissented from some of the conclusions of the draft report.
The report concluded that legal advice from Crown lawyers should be made available to scrutiny panels in the course of their work and should be published.
‘It had been understood that my dissent would be recorded in the report, but I was subsequently advised that the chairman had decided unilaterally to delete that information.
He said that in view of the content of the now further revised final draft presented to the States last week, he had no alternative but to distance himself from the report and disassociate himself from the ‘beliefs, findings and recommendations’ of the panel chaired by Deputy Southern.
‘I regret very much having to do this as one of my last contributions to this Assembly, but to remain silent would be to abdicate my responsibilities,’ said Deputy Dubras.
