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In a striking broadside against the UK Privy Council, law experts from across the region questioned Jamaica’s continued clinging to the London-based appellate court, asserting that the CARICOM country continues to “loiter on the premises of the. ....
Retired General Secretary of the island’s largest public sector trade union Roslyn Smith has lost the unfair dismissal claim she brought against her former employer. The Employment Rights Tribunal (ERT) on Wednesday ruled that Smith was not unfairly dismissed by the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW), which had contended that she was retired when her contract of employment ended on ....
The attorney who represented former murder accused Frank Errol Gibson says the State should not appeal the High Court decision that awarded him $1.8 million for the decade he spent on remand. But if the State does appeal, said King’s Counsel Larry Smith, it could send a message “about the State’s willingness to go for the jugular of a poor, innocent, black man who has endured great suffering at the … ....
Government would be sending the “wrong message” if it chooses to appeal a recent court decision to award a man who was wrongly imprisoned for a decade close to $2 million.That is the view of attorney-at-law, King’s Counsel Larry Smith, who has called on the State to pay Frank Gibson the monies owed him.“Should the State consider appealing this award, my concern would be the message sent to us as a society about the State’s willingness to go for the jugular of a poor, innocent, black man who has endured great suffering at the State’s own hands. Throughout, there has been this sense of an old colonial authoritarian system saying, innocent or not, you cannot win,” the lawyer said.His comments have come following last week’s decision by Justice Pamela Beckles to award Gibson $1.8 million in damages after she agreed that his constitutional rights were breached. ....
The year 2022 was one of landmark judicial cases. It started with the constitutional challenge to the snap general election called by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, two years before it was constitutionally due. The action brought by attorney-at-law Lalu Hanuman on behalf of Philip Catlyn, challenged Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s decision to call the election while the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. The ....