BREAKING NEWS: INJUNCTION SEEKING TO HALT BARBADOS' GENERAL ELECTIONS THROWN OUT An injunction filed to halt Barbados' General elections was dismissed by a
Government has signalled its intention to appeal recent decisions in which accused men were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation after the courts found their constitutional rights were infringed.This was made clear on Friday by Attorney General Dale Marshall who said the State will challenge the rulings of Justices Cecil McCarthy and Cicely Chase who awarded Pedro Ellis and Larry Patrick Agard a combined $155 000.Justice Chase awarded Agard $95 000 for the 14-year delay in having his matter heard, while Justice McCarthy awarded murder accused Agard $60 000 after he ruled that his constitutional rights to a fair hearing within a reasonable time and to bail had been breached.Ellis had also been awarded $75 000 by Justice Shona Griffith for being unlawfully detained for 18 days after he was acquitted of murder.“In each of those cases, the issue was the delay that besets the criminal system and how it has infringed individual’s constitutional rights and in each of t
Justice Cicely Chase has just given the go-ahead for the Senate to meet with 18 members as she threw out preliminary arguments in the constitutional motion brought by Queen s Counsel Garth Patterson. The decision came as Prime Minister Mia Mottey began her Budget Speech in the House of Assembly. The judge has also ruled President the Most Honourable, Dame Sandra Mason, had properly convened Parliament when she appointed only 18 …
The next time attorneys meet to argue the constitutional motion challenging the validity of the Senate, they will be doing so virtually. Justice Cicely Chase has stressed that the public will be able to view the proceeding as the matter was one of national interest. The decision has come after Queen’s Counsel Garth Patterson expressed reservation about the in-person component of yesterday’s sitting. Some eight lawyers representing the Government, Patterson …
BREAKING NEWS: INJUNCTION SEEKING TO HALT BARBADOS' GENERAL ELECTIONS THROWN OUT An injunction filed to halt Barbados' General elections was dismissed by a