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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the intent of this amendment is good but if you look at the marginal note--- This is on the Cabinet Secretary granting geothermal resources licence. This is big business. I have no problem at all with the Committee Chair giving aggrieved persons access to appeal their cases to the High Court, but why do you limit the time or period for the High Court? You know how our court system works. It is clogged. These are commercial disputes and are rarely given priority. Why then would you limit them to 90 days? The implication of this is that you are making the Tribunal the final authority. I plead with the Committee Chair. The intention here to go to the High Court is good but why can we not allow these aggrieved people to exhaust all the legal processes from the High Court, the Court of Appeal and, if need be, even to the Supreme Court? Why do you limit it and say that within 90 days, if the High Court does not make a decision, it will reverse to the decision of the Tribunal? The commercial interests here are too big to be limited in this sense. In a way, what you are saying is that the decision of the Tribunal would, in more ways than one, be final. I plead with the Committee Chair to remove this last section which says: “(7C) If the High Court fails to hear and determine the appeal within the period referred to under subsection (7B), the decision of the Tribunal shall be final. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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