Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
Copyright infringement cases are a rarity locally, and it does not help that the Copyright Act in Jamaica is as large as it is unwieldy.Understandably, therefore, media practitioners, generally, and practitioners in this area of the law, were...
Published:Friday | November 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
Up to five years ago, I would listen to my family members and associates in North America lament about how important their having a healthy credit score was to the quality of their livelihood and feel secretly relieved that this was not an issue in...
Published:Friday | November 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
I am sure you will not be surprised to hear that given the measure of controversy generated by the so-called X6 trial, I promised myself to refresh my knowledge on two things: 1. the provisions of the Firearms Act, and 2. the length and breadth of...
Published:Saturday | October 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
I have a young child. My father has a pit bull, Brittany, which has been in the family for years, and who, according to my father, is harmless as she only attacks other dogs, albeit, sometimes viciously. On Thursday, as I am wont to do, I stopped by...
Published:Friday | July 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
News came last week that Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is to order a comprehensive review of the Dangerous Drugs Act (2015) (the ‘Act’) as he argued that the amendments passed by Parliament last year were “rushed and not...
Published:Friday | May 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMShena Stubbs
Generating quite a bit of buzz and jaw dropping, recently, has been the injunction issued by the Supreme Court, which has resulted in the closure of the J. Wray & Nephew sugar factory, Appleton Estate in St Elizabeth. The closure of the factory...
