The days of public workers being automatically dismissed for recording criminal convictions while still employed by Government were abruptly brought to an end. This is because on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the process was unlawful, following its deliberations in the matter of Wilbert Lynch against the Chief Personnel Officer, the Public Service Commission and the Attorney General. The matter, which was first lodged in 2012, was finally ruled …
Court ruling has implications for magistrates’ action
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The days of persons being convicted of criminal offences and having their records immediately expunged in the Magistrates’ Courts could well be a thing of the past, based on a powerful precedent set in the Supreme Court on Monday.
In fact, the recent judgment suggests that the magistrates who delivered such rulings may well have been acting outside of their power.
In handing down a judgement regarding the treatment of public officers facing disciplinary proceedings, Madame Justice Shona Griffith rejected arguments from two separate claimants who were represented by Hal Gollop Q.C. in association with Saffron Griffith on one hand and Gregory Nicholls on the other.
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Lawyers for an accused gunman are claiming that the 2019 amendment to the
Bail Act is “unconstitutional” and infringes on “six” of their client’s rights. Furthermore, the legal team wants the court to award more than quarter million dollars to the accused in the matter.
Lamar Antonio Jones, from Rock Avenue, Wildey, St Michael who has been on remand for the past 17 months in connection with matters under the
AN INQUEST into the death of billionaire businessman JP McManus’s daughter-in-law has been temporarily halted following a court application for it to be held in private.
Emma McManus (40) was found dead on December 30 by her husband, JP McManus’s son John Paul, in the bedroom of their residence in the luxury Sandy Lane resort in Barbados.
A resumed inquest was due to hear toxicology evidence yesterday. However, it was halted following an application by lawyers for John Paul McManus to a civil court in Barbados for an order directing the resumed hearing be held “in camera”.
At a previous inquest hearing in January there was a conflict between the coroner, Magistrate Graveney Bannister, and John Paul McManus about a phone call allegedly made shortly after his wife’s death.
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