HL Deb 21 November 1990 vol 523 c25WA
Lord Norrie

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What plans they have for reviewing the constitution of the Cayman Islands.

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (The Earl of Caithness)

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has agreed to a request from the Legislative Assembly in the Cayman Islands for a constitutional review. He has appointed Sir Frederick Smith, KA, QC, Chief Justice in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and Mr. Walter Wallace, CVO, CBE, DSC, Constitutional Adviser on the Dependent Territories to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as commissioners. The commission will sit for eight weeks, beginning in January 1991.