The lawyer for doctor Avinash Sawh, who was found guilty of "infamous and disgraceful conduct" for racist, obscene and discriminatory comments he made in phone calls with a former female employee in November 2020 claims the disciplinary tribunal of the Medical Board was not fair to his client. In a WhatsApp message to Sunday Newsday,
ATTORNEY Kerwyn Garcia said it was the Government – not his wife President Christine Kangaloo – that supported his application to become a senior counsel (SC), under a process whose final approval is set out in the Constitution. He was speaking to reporters minutes after Kangaloo presented instruments conferring SC status (also commonly known as
THE Law Association has intervened in the interpretation claim on the appointment of senior counsel, or silk. On Thursday, attorneys for the association sought permission from Justice Devindra Rampersad when the claim, filed in March, by prominent and outspoken attorney Israel Khan, SC, came up for hearing. The judge gave directions for the filing of
TWO convicted prisoners, together serving sentences of more than six decades, will return to the High Court for a review of their sentences after a judge held that the delay by the prison authorities in reviewing their prison terms was unconstitutional.
THE nine men convicted of the brutal beheading of Thackoor Boodram, brother of drug kingpin Dole Chadee, in 2017, have appeared before a High Court judge for resentencing. Boodram, a pig farmer, was kidnapped from his home on December 20, 1997. His abductors demanded a ransom, but ten days later his head was found in