The Crown is expected to close its case today at the trial of 26-year-old land surveyor Mark Amos who is charged with five counts of manslaughter. Fifteen witnesses have been called by the prosecution at the trial which began four weeks ago in the...
The Kingston-based attorney and medical doctor accused of forging the will of deceased hotelier John Sinclair are to return to court on January 27. Sixty-seven-year-old lawyer, Peter Millingen, and 58-year-old medical doctor, Dane Levy, appeared in...
The start of the trial of the five men charged with the beheading of a mother and daughter in Lauriston, St. Catherine in 2011 has been rescheduled to February 29 next year. The trial could not proceed in the Home Circuit Court today because...
Prominent attorney-at-law Harold Brady has been freed of fraud charges. When the matter was called up in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court today the court was informed that the money owed to businessman, Jeffrey Panton, has now...
A jury this morning freed three policemen who were on trial for the murders of two brothers in St Andrew 14 years ago. Justice Vinette Graham Allen instructed the jurors to return a formal verdict of not guilty after prosecutors cited...
A 37-year-old woman whose car ploughed into a St Andrew bus stop in 2011, killing two people, including a blind woman, has been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. A seven-member jury returned the guilty verdict against Ann-Marie...
The Supreme Court has granted ATL permission to challenge an order by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) that former employee, Catherine Barber be reinstated. Justice Bryan Sykes this morning granted leave to ATL to go to the...
The Court of Appeal has thrown out the appeal brought by elector Manley Bowen to set aside a $4.9 million award in relation to the legal battle involving Member of Parliament for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson, over her dual citizenship issue...
The Supreme Court has granted leave to PhD student in biochemistry, Suzette Curtello, to challenge a decision of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in relation to certain requirements to complete her degree. She claims the...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the Children's Advocate does not have a statutory right to withhold information in circumstances where rights to freedom of movement have been severely restricted. This is in reference to the case of former...
The two men charged with the murder of former Member of Parliament Dr Neil McGill have been found guilty in the Manchester Circuit Court. Andy Wareham and Milton Green were convicted following a unanimous decision by a 12-member jury. The third co-...
In a majority decision, the Court of Appeal has upheld a Supreme Court ruling that certain amendments to the rules of the pension scheme of Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica were validly made and the trustees of the pension fund acted fairly in their...
The Supreme Court has restored the bail of a Sri Lankan man and criticised senior magistrate Judith Pusey for revoking it. In her decision today, Justice Georgiana Fraser, said Pusey had no ‘good reason’ to revoke the bail of 58-year-...
A policeman is now nursing injuries he received following an attack by six prisoners today in the lock up at the Supreme Court building in Kingston. It is reported that the prisoners were taken to court and were being processed when one of them was...
A judge has heeded the warning of lawyers about a possible miscarriage of justice and adjourned, until next year, the case against three soldiers charged with murdering a businessman during the 2010 operation in search of Christopher 'Dudus...
An illiterate man is to face a new carnal abuse trial because the Court of Appeal said he suffered a substantial miscarriage of justice in June 2011 when he was left to defend himself after his lawyer withdrew from the trial. The court...
Police investigators are preparing to charge former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor, Don Creary, with human trafficking and another criminal charge. Creary's co-accused Shaneke Williams, is also expected to face human trafficking...
A police constable assigned to the Prime Minister's security detail is to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on September 15 on gang-related charges. At that time, the prosecution is expected to present further...
Two policemen were today offered bail when they appeared in court on separate corruption-related charges. Constable Owen McLeary was offered bail in the sum of $850,000 following an application by his attorney, Dwight Reece. He’s to return to...
The trial of attorney-at-law Harold Brady on fraud charges, failed to start this morning because of an incomplete case file. Brady was expected to be tried in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on a charge of fraudulent...
Serial rapist, Patrick Green, has filed an appeal against the sentences imposed on him in two separate courts. Green is contending that the sentences are manifestly excessive and should be reduced. In March this year, the Clarendon man was...
After a 13-year legal fight, murder convict Omar Neil has failed in his bid to have the court hear fresh evidence to overturn his conviction and sentence. The Court of Appeal has found that the fresh evidence a witness had given on his behalf was...
The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of former Jamaica Defence Force corporal Leslie Moodie, but has overturned his sentence of death. The former JDF soldier was convicted in 2010 for the murders of four men in a nightclub along Washington...
Businessman, Leighton ‘Livity’ Coke has filed an appeal seeking to quash a ruling by the Constitutional Court dismissing his application for compensation for the beating he received from soldiers at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in...
A judge has designated the case involving five men charged with the 2011 beheading of a woman and her daughter as a priority for the Home Circuit Court. Justice Lloyd Hibbert made the declaration this morning even as he was forced...
