A security guard who spent four years in prison because of the failure of the presiding judge to give adequate warnings to the jury after the complainant, who was a child, had admitted to telling lies, may not be able to recover from the setback...
The Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers Limited (JACAP) has lost its legal battle to recover millions of dollars from Restaurants of Jamaica, trading as KFC, for “alleged copyright infringement”. The case also examined...
The General Legal Council has been given the go-ahead by the Court of Appeal to impose a sanction on attorney-at-law Mario Anderson, who was found guilty of a breach of the Legal Profession Canons of Professional Ethics Rules. Anderson had filed...
It took a litigant almost eight years to get a ruling after judgment was reserved in a civil suit he brought in the Supreme Court against the Transport Authority of Jamaica. But Justice Leighton Pusey has blamed a pilot project for audio recordings...
Jamaica Police Federation Chairman Corporal Rohan James scored a major victory on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled that he should be reinstated in his post immediately with full pay until his motion for judicial review is heard and finally...
COURT REPORTERS who produce the transcripts of proceedings (verbatim notes) in the nation’s courts say they are facing many injustices and will be calling for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to appoint a panel to hear their grouses so that steps can...
District Constable Dean Hyman, who was convicted of unlawful wounding and sentenced in February 2021 to two years’ imprisonment at hard labour, has been freed by the Court of Appeal. He had given verbal notice of appeal and was granted bail pending...
A man who was falsely arrested and charged in January 2011 for obtaining goods by false pretences and conspiracy to defraud, arising from the purchase of an AC Delco battery, has been successful in obtaining a Supreme Court award of $14 million...
A LIBRARIAN employed in the government service who was suspended from duties in 2016 has received a Supreme Court award in damages of $1 million for a breach of his constitutional right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. Sheldon Roberts,...
Victoria Mutual Wealth Management Limited (Victoria Mutual) has been found to be in contempt of a court order involving an employee who was sent on fully paid administrative leave and is to pay a fine of $400,000. The July 2021 Supreme Court...
The executive members of a corporation at a housing complex in St Andrew have been given the green light by the Court of Appeal to pursue their lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the occupants of an adjoining property and apply for a restraining...
A TEMPORARY stay granted by the Court of Appeal this month to the dismissed principal of the Seaforth High School, Calbert Thomas, has barred the school board from filling the vacancy. The dismissal should have taken effect on September 30, but...
DISBARRED attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey has scored a major victory in the Supreme Court, which awarded him $16 million with interest in a lawsuit brought against him by real estate agent Stafford Dixon, arising from the sale of a property in St...
A St Andrew woman who spent 13 days in custody because of an error by a court official at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court says that although she was released last week Monday, she is still having nightmares because of the horrific...
DOUBLE MURDER convict Mervin Cameron has launched a constitutional challenge to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn being granted approval to remain in office until she is 65. Cameron filed a suit today in the Supreme Court and...
Jamaica’s justice system is again under scrutiny following reports that a woman who has been on bail for the past six years waiting for the records of her case to be sent to the Court of Appeal was imprisoned last Tuesday, reportedly because of a...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, KC, is to remain in office for another two years. An amendment this year to the Constitution changed the age of retirement for the post from 60 to 65. Llewellyn, who turned 63 on Thursday,...
A meeting to remove Debbie Ann Gordon as the trustee for Mystic Mountain Limited, a major tourist attraction in Ocho Rios, St Ann had to be abandoned half way through on Monday after the Supreme Court granted an injunction stopping it from taking...
A policeman whose right leg had to be amputated above the knee, because of a gunshot injury he suffered in September 2017, is contending that it was negligence, lack of proper care and treatment at two local hospitals that led to the removal of his...
The failure of police officers to hold an identification parade in a murder case in 2009 for construction worker Shawn Robinson, who was then 23 years old, has severely impacted his life as he was forced to spend six years behind bars before he was...
The dependents of 42-year-old Dianne Gordon have been left disappointed with the Supreme Court award of $4.6 million with interest that the Government has been ordered to pay for the unwarranted firing of gunshots by policemen, 10 of which struck...
Motorists who face regular encounters with cows, especially at night, on the roads, have been raising safety concerns and calling for the government to pass the necessary laws to curtail the threat of deadly crashes caused by cattle. Senior...
The Judicial Review Court has granted an order compelling the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation to take all necessary steps to conclude or complete, within three months, the review exercise of the appraisal for its former senior legal...
A major victory was scored yesterday by the Government when the Full Court ruled that the three-year extension granted to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn in 2020 was lawful. Double-murder convict Mervin Cameron had challenged...
A constitutional claim could be filed as early as this week ahead of the enactment of recent controversial legislative amendments to increase the age of retirement for holders of the offices of director of public prosecutions and auditor general...
