Chief Justice Roxane George has ruled that the appointment of parliamentary secretaries is unlawful.
The Chief Justice made no compulsory order for the appointments to be reversed.
It is now in the hands of the Speaker of the National Assembly to act in accordance with the ruling.
The challenge was filed by APNU + AFC some three months after the appointment of Parliamentary Secretaries Vickash Ramkissoon and Sarah Brown.
Arguments were submitted by an Attorney on behalf of the applicant, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, Attorney General and Senior Counsel Anil Nandlall, and Manoj Narayan, who represented the National Assembly Spokesperson.
It is understood that APNU / AFC wants the High Court to issue an order directing National Assembly Speaker Manzoor Nadir to prevent both sitting in the National Assembly as Parliamentary Secretaries.
The Parliamentary Secretaries were appointed on September 15, day two of the budget debates. Brown, who was Vice Chairman of Region One, was appointed to assist Amerindian Affairs Minister Pauline Sukhai while Ramkissoon was appointed to assist Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, in carrying out his duties.
At the time, this announcement interviewed Government Chief Whip and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Gail Teixeira, who had clarified the meaning of the appointments and the fact that they do not breach the Constitution but that them in the process of constitutional reform.
Joseph Hamilton, currently Labor Minister, is a former Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Health. Sukhai, on the other hand, served as Parliamentary Secretary in the very Ministry she now heads.