Appeal Court: Judge got it wrong on Venezuelan girl deportation case
Wednesday 23 December 2020
OVERRULED: Not only was Justice Frank Seepersad’s orders overturned by the Appeal Court, but he was removed from hearing the substantive case involving an 11-year-old girl who the State wants to deport. -
AN 11-year-old Venezuelan girl at risk of being deported because of a judge’s ruling has received a temporary reprieve, as the Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday she must remain in TT until her constitutional challenge against the deportation order is heard and determined in court.
In an oral decision at a virtual hearing, Justices of Appeal Ronnie Boodoosingh and James Aboud agreed that the December 1 decision of Justice Frank Seepersad to refuse an injunction application against the State’s plan to deport the child was “plainly wrong.”
State stopped from deporting 9 V’zuelans
Wednesday 16 December 2020
A HIGH COURT judge has given protection to nine Venezuelans – four adults and five children – preventing their deportations, at least for now.
Justice Ricky Rahim on Tuesday granted applications filed on behalf of the group which, as part of a larger group of 25, returned to TT illegally on November 24.
The 25 were quarantined at the state-controlled quarantine facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas. Most of them received orders from various judges preventing their deportation during their quarantine period which ended on Tuesday.
Relatives for the children, who are in Trinidad as UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) asylum seekers or holders of the Government’s registration cards, expressed fear of the children’s fate after the quarantine period ended.
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