This week, Legal Scoop will take a brief look at the Jamaican Constitution as it relates to the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to make a comparison with what exists in Britain. As is well known, the Jamaican...
A showdown appears imminent between the Pharmaceutical Society/Pharmacy Council of Jamaica (together referred to herein as the pharmacists) and the Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ). Recently Legal Scoop listened to a portion of a heated...
It is long, it is detailed, sometimes repetitive, but the judgment is worth the read.After all, it was lawyers in court against lawyers, so there had to be extensive and expansive arguments.I speak of nothing else but the judgment of the Full Court...
In the last instalment of this column, we took readers through the proposed Law Reform (Zones of Special Operations) (Special Security and Development Measures) Act (the act).That column looked at the objectives of the act, the criteria that would...
Last week, word began to infiltrate the water cooler congregants and then the airwaves, that wellknown attorney-at-law, Harold Brady, had been struck from the roll of attorneys entitled to practise in Jamaica. Legal Scoop has obtained a copy of...
In my last article, 'Guardian beware', I averted to the Court of Appeal's ruling in the case of B v C and the Office of the Children's Advocate delivered on October 28, 2016, that the inherent equitable jurisdiction to appoint guardianship to a...
