Chief Justice Bryan Sykes has responded to senior citizen Doril Barclay, who, last month, sought his intervention in a lawsuit she filed 14 years ago in the Supreme Court. Sykes, in a November 7 letter to Barclay, sought to assure her that every...
An unusual situation has surfaced in a civil case in the Supreme Court in which Justice Leighton Pusey has indicated that he plans to strike out the claimant’s and the defendant’s statements of case on the basis that they do not disclose any...
The Supreme Court has ruled that an employer’s processing of personal data for background checks is permissible as the Data Protection Act (DPA) of 2020 faced its first legal challenge. Justice Dale Palmer delivered the decision after denying an...
General Secretary of the National Workers Union (NWU), Granville Valentine, has condemned the poor working conditions experienced by some hotel employees, describing them as a “slavish approach” and urging legislative intervention to put an end to...
A senior citizen whose case has been on the civil list at the Supreme Court for 14 years is now making a special plea to Chief Justice Bryan Sykes to help to end what she considers her bondage by the justice system. “I have spent all my money on...
A father has lost his legal battle in the Supreme Court to have his three children who were born in Canada be returned there. Justice Lorna Shelly-Williams said that because Canada had not acceded to Jamaica as a Contracting State under the Hague...
A man who spent three years in custody, facing charges for murder and robbery before the prosecution offered no evidence against him in December 2017, has won a Supreme Court award of $14. 6 million with interest against the Government. Charles...
The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no general principle that a 10-year-old child cannot be found liable for negligence. This is seen as a landmark decision, as in Jamaica, the age of criminal responsibility starts at 12 years old. The...
A student who was expelled from a prominent high school last month because of behavioural issues is now back at the institution. This after school officials were informed by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Youth that the child had...
A bench warrant was issued yesterday for Bradley Robinson, 50, suspended principal of John Mills All-Age School in St Andrew, who has been before the court facing a child pornography charge for the past nine years. When Robinson appeared in the...
Unprecedented is how senior attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman has described the almost six-month delay by the Supreme Court in handing down a ruling last week in an application for an injunction by former chairman of the Police Federation Corporal Rohan...
Businessman Winston Finzi and his company, Mahoe Bay Company Limited, scored a major victory last month when the Supreme Court ruled that they did not benefit from a US$2.5-million loan in 2003. Instead, half of the amount was used to purchase...
A father is distraught after learning that his 15-year-old son, who was charged with a minor offence last year, has been barred from attending a prominent high school despite his successful completion of the Child Diversion Programme for which he...
Calls are being made by defence lawyers for the authorities to move swiftly to put plans in place for accused persons in custody or prison to have access to the exhibits from the prosecution, which are being disclosed electronically. They have...
Reputed leader of the St Catherine-based Clansman Gang Tesha Miller is objecting to the electronic serving of material by the Crown on the basis that he cannot electronically access them while being incarcerated to prepare his defence. A letter...
Retired Senior Parish Court Judge, Sheron Barnes, has urged local judges to avoid the ‘high-handed’ approach to justice and instead share with persons the reasoning behind their decisions handed down in courts. Barnes, who retired in July after...
Retired teacher and former resident of Rose Street, Lucky Hill, St Mary, Leila Henry Riley, who now lives in Florida, is urging all Jamaicans to give back to their communities to better the lives of others, particularly children. Residents in...
Despite the Government’s pledge in 2018 to create a First World, high-tech court system, many members of the Supreme Court staff said this week that they were working in inhumane conditions. The staff outlined in detail some of the problems they...
The Full Court has ruled that the fact that members of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) are appointed by a government minister, does not equate to a finding that in any matter involving government and its officials, the members are unable to...
Senior citizen Cynthia Brivit was rejoicing yesterday and praising the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) for releasing her from the threat of being left homeless as a result of an unpaid loan for which she stood as guarantor in 2007. “They have released...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, as the minister of economic growth and job creation, who was the defendant in a claim, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to hear and determine an appeal brought by Charley’s Windsor House Limited challenging a...
It has been sleepless nights for senior citizen Cynthia Brivit since a law firm sent a letter to her this month indicating that legal action is to be taken against her to have her house in Greater Portmore, St Catherine sold in order to recover a $...
The Supreme Court has denied an application by David Stewart to compel the National Commercial Bank to remove the freeze on his company’s current account because of allegations that it felt insecure with respect to the business. In his claim,...
A concerned citizen has complained that he was chased away when he went to a police station in the Corporate Area on Monday afternoon to report that a 10-year-old child was left unsupervised at home on several occasions. “I thought I was doing a...
Cynthia Brivit is breathing a sigh of relief after two paraplegic brothers she cares for in Clifton, St Catherine, have been diagnosed with a hereditary condition and are set to start receiving treatment shortly. Days after being featured in a...
