IN OUR regular Inside Politics column yesterday we highlighted the Law Officers’ insistence that they regard with the utmost seriousness their duties to safeguard and uphold the rights and liberties of islanders and, that being the case, it is right to ask what went wrong in the case of Avant Garden.

ONE of the enduring, if low key, questions that floats around the political ether from time to time is whether it is right for the Bailiff to retain his historic roles as chief justice, ‘speaker’ or presiding officer of the States, and the island’s civic head.

ON PAGES 10 and 11 of today’s Guernsey Press, a prominent local lawyer analyses the first item that States members will consider when they debate this month’s Billet d’Etat and he also looks at the consequences for Guernsey of what amounts to a challenge to the island’s law-making powers by the UK.