Scoffing at the criticism and vitriol being spewed at attorney-at-law Tamika Harris for representing the mass murderer of a family of five in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, in June, members of the legal profession are arguing that she should be commended...
The crime crisis Jamaica is facing has rankled some judges so much that they threw the book at a double murder convict, imposing the maximum sentence. In July, the Court of Appeal ordered that Rayon Williams must serve 45 years before being...
Puzzlement and disbelief are now swirling in legal circles about an unprecedented case of a man who was tried and convicted for murder and wounding with intent by a seven-member jury all bearing the same last name. In fact, several senior attorneys...
Delroy Chuck left his lucrative law practice 25 years ago to enter representational politics. Before then, he had done a fair amount of legal work as well as lecturing at The University of the West Indies for 20 years. But in 1997, he was elected...
The police have revealed that an alarming number of women are being raped or robbed on their first date with men they meet on social media platforms; however, the true extent of the problem remains unknown because some women are too fearful or...
Strong support has come from the Advocates’ Association of Jamaica for the Government to make an ex gratia payment to a man who, at age 18, was incarcerated for 12 years for a crime he did not commit, and was eventually freed 11 years ago....
Retired Supreme Court Judge Lennox Campbell is aware that Jamaica’s justice system needs significant improvements, but he asserts that the citizens must take an active role in order for it to properly function. He is calling on Jamaicans to do...
A parish court judge issued a committal order last week Wednesday against Queen’s Counsel Denise Kitson, a managing partner at the law firm Grant Stewart Phillips...
A grave “miscarriage of justice” resulted in the conviction of a hotel worker, who spent four years in prison before he was freed this month by the Court of Appeal. “I have been robbed of four valuable years of my life because of a flawed justice...
The Court of Appeal, last month, ordered the immediate release of a man who had to wait for 10 years to get the transcript of his trial so that his appeal could be heard. Although Jerome Dixon lost the appeal against his conviction for wounding...
Retired fishing vessel captain Jeffery Steadman is now homeless but he is not giving up the fight to ascertain how his father, the late custos of Portland, John Henry Stedman, who died 25 years ago, was allegedly swindled out of 267 acres of prime...
A man who spent four days in jail and faced a criminal charge after he rescued a 10-year-old boy from being mauled to death by two vicious dogs says he has no regrets in doing what he did to save the boy’s life. Referred to by many in the parish of...
