Jamaican national, Matthew Sewell, is one step closer to being awarded compensation for damages for false imprisonment on various criminal charges from the Bahamian government.
This follows this week's decision by the Bahamas Court of Appeal to dismiss the Bahamian government's application for additional time to appeal last September's Supreme Court ruling in favour of Sewell that awarded him damages that are to be to be assessed.
According to Eyewitness News Bahamas, the Bahamas Court of Appeal in its ruling, stated that "the government failed to seek leave from the Supreme Court to appeal interlocutory matters and was out of time.