But that is not the end of it for the Prime Minister. We expect that he may have some answering to do to his cabinet colleagues and the public about why government did not just follow this legal advice back in April - advice which they are only just now following after the Prime Minister's Ministry tried to get the Definitive Agreement through Cabinet.
But, why take such a perilous political course for a manifestly fraudulent document? The former PM gave his take on it today:
Dean Barrow, Former Prime Minister
"There is no way the Prime Minister can explain how, having Juratowich's opinion, which concluded on such a clear unambiguous note, (how) he could go to cabinet - and I don't want to hear that Chris Coye prepared the cabinet paper - or Stuart Leslie, or maybe the good Financial Secretary. It doesn't matter. I was there. That paper goes under the hand of the Prime Minister; it is his paper. He will, in fact, introduce it during the cabinet conclave. He might invite his Minister of State to say something to add to the argument, but it is his paper and, and it is inexplicable that the Prime Minister could have taken such a paper to cabinet, enjoining cabinet to approve the definitive agreement on the basis that it was binding and non-approval would expose the cabinet to liability."
"When Dr. Juratowich's opinion to the contrary, was so very clear. His reasons for doing that. It beggar's belief that he could have done that innocently. There can be no innocence about that. That obviously had to be deliberate. And why the Prime Minister would do such a thing, in fact is clearly tied up with all the noise we've been hearing about, uh, special interests and about connections and that sort of thing. In any case, how now can he say to members of cabinet, there is a reasonable explanation."
"There is any explanation at all for my doing that."
