Counsel notes that the public quality of Roman Catholic schools is a bureaucratic construct assigned to one group of ratepayers based on their religious affiliation to the discriminatory exclusion of all other ratepayers.

Separate School Boards are elected by Roman Catholic ratepayers, and these school boards have the right to manage the denominational aspects of the separate schools.

Separate School Boards are elected by Roman Catholic ratepayers, and these school boards have the right to manage the denominational aspects of the separate schools.

In particular, more work must be done to determine how Governments can ensure that explicit subsidies are not simply replaced with hidden subsidies, such as the practice of cross-subsidization among different classes of ratepayers.

1974-1984 Founder of the National Land Tenants and Ratepayers Association of Trinidad and Tobago, which Association successfully agitated for land law reform, resulting in the 1981 Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act.