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High Court judge restores Sri Lankan man's bail

Published:Thursday | October 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

The Supreme Court has restored the bail of a Sri Lankan man and criticised senior magistrate Judith Pusey for revoking it. In her decision today, Justice Georgiana Fraser, said Pusey had no ‘good reason’ to revoke the bail of 58-year-...

Cops want help after colleague injured by prisoners at courthouse

Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

Police personnel manning the criminal courts at the Supreme Court in downtown Kingston are upset that one of their colleagues nearly lost his life when he was attacked over a ganja spliff while processing six prisoners in the cell downstairs at the...

Prisoners attack policeman over spliff at Supreme Court

Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A policeman is now nursing injuries he received following an attack by six prisoners today in the lock up at the Supreme Court building in Kingston. It is reported that the prisoners were taken to court and were being processed when one of them was...

Court awards businesswoman $10 million after Transport Authority seizes vehicle

Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

The Government-owned Transport Authority has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay $10 million with interest to a businesswoman who had to rent a motor vehicle for four years because its agents seized her motor car and refused to return it....

Jurors decry court 'fiasco'

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

Jurors who turned out in large numbers at the Home Circuit Court yesterday morning expressed disgust at the fact that they had to sit for more than three hours "twiddling" their thumbs before a 12-member jury was finally selected and they were told...

Judge heeds warning of possible miscarriage of justice in Keith Clarke murder trial

Published:Monday | October 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A judge has heeded the warning of lawyers about a possible miscarriage of justice and adjourned, until next year, the case against three soldiers charged with murdering a businessman during the 2010 operation in search of Christopher 'Dudus...

Appeals Court orders retrial for illiterate man convicted on carnal abuse charge

Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

An illiterate  man is to face a new carnal abuse trial because the Court of Appeal said he suffered a substantial miscarriage of justice in June 2011 when he was left to defend himself after his lawyer withdrew from the trial. The court...

Attorneys want justice for jurors

Published:Saturday | September 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

Strong objections are now being raised by some defence lawyers to the Government's decision to reimburse expenses to persons summoned for jury duty only if they are selected to try criminal cases."This decision must be reversed immediately," said...

Kidnapping trial of former policeman begins in Home Circuit Court

Published:Friday | September 18, 2015 | 6:28 PMBarbara Gayle

THE CROWN has offered no evidence against Kevin Lamont Wolfe, who was charged jointly with 36-year-old former policeman Alpheus Wade, whose trial for kidnapping a St Andrew businessman began this week in the Home Circuit Court.Senior Deputy Director...

More charges expected for Creary - attorney

Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

Police investigators are preparing to charge former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor Don Creary with human trafficking and another criminal charge.Creary's co-accused, Shaneke Williams, is also expected to face human-trafficking charges....

No evidence against kidnapping accused

Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

The Crown has offered no evidence against Kevin Lamont Wolfe, who was charged jointly with 36-year-old former policeman Alpheus Wade, whose trial for kidnapping a St Andrew businessman began yesterday in the...

Human trafficking charges likely for Don Creary, Shaneke Williams

Published:Thursday | September 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

Police investigators are preparing to charge former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor, Don Creary, with human trafficking and another criminal charge. Creary's co-accused Shaneke Williams, is also expected to face human trafficking...

Principal investigated for beating student

Published:Monday | September 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

The Ministry of Education is investigating the circumstances under which a 10-year-old boy was allegedly slapped several times by a principal at a primary school in the Corporate Area.It was reported that the incident took place last week Monday at...

$4 million fine for possession and trafficking cocaine

Published:Thursday | September 3, 2015 | 8:19 PMBarbara Gayle

Two Jamaican men and two Colombian men were yesterday fined a total of $4,000,000, and in addition, sent to prison for one year for possession and trafficking 208 pounds of cocaine.The Jamaicans - Norman Brown and Dwight White - and the Colombians...

Court September 15 for cop linked to PM's security detail

Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 3:17 PMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

A police constable assigned to the Prime Minister's security detail is to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on September 15 on gang-related charges. At that time, the prosecution is expected to present further...

Cops on corruption charges offered bail

Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

Two policemen were today offered bail when they appeared in court on separate corruption-related charges. Constable Owen McLeary was offered bail in the sum of $850,000 following an application by his attorney, Dwight Reece. He’s to return to...

Harold Brady's fraud trial fails to get underway

Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

The trial of attorney-at-law Harold Brady on fraud charges, failed to start this morning because of an incomplete case file.  Brady was expected to be tried in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on a charge of fraudulent...

FID’s role being questioned in JTA fraud case

Published:Friday | August 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

The two women accused of benefiting from the more than $99 million allegedly stolen from the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) by one of its former employees, are challenging the role of the Financial Investigation Division (FID) in the case....

Fired teacher to be reinstated

Published:Monday | August 31, 2015 | 7:04 PMBarbara Gayle

The Teachers' Appeal Tribunal has ordered that Marcia Ruddock, a teacher who was fired last year from Grange Hill High School, Westmoreland, must be reinstated because the rules of natural justice were breached.Attorneys-at-law AndrÈ Earle and...

Serial rapist convicted for Irwin Point assault appeals 35-year sentence

Published:Thursday | August 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

Serial rapist, Patrick Green, has filed an appeal against the sentences imposed on him in two separate courts.  Green is contending that the sentences are manifestly excessive and should be reduced. In March this year, the Clarendon man was...

Veteran lawyers cleared of wrongdoing

Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 10:23 AMBarbara Gayle

Two senior members of the local Bar accused of giving a client bad legal advice have been cleared by the Court of Appeal, which found that the contention was not supported by the material placed before it.Former public defenders Howard Hamilton, QC...

QC quarrel rages on

Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle

The debate about how lawyers are appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) locally has re-ignited with fresh calls for changes in the way appointments are made and for more persons who operate at the criminal Bar to be appointed.This time, the lawyers are...

Murder convict loses 13-year fight to quash verdict

Published:Tuesday | August 11, 2015 | 12:30 PMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

After a 13-year legal fight, murder convict Omar Neil has failed in his bid to have the court hear fresh evidence to overturn his conviction and sentence. The Court of Appeal has found that the fresh evidence a witness had given on his behalf was...

JDF soldier loses appeal in Diamond Lounge murders

Published:Friday | July 31, 2015 | 4:52 PMBarbara Gayle

JAMAICA DEFENCE Force soldier Leslie Moodie who shot and killed four men in the Diamond Lounge Gaming Club on Washington Boulevard, St Andrew in October 28, 2008, while a birthday party was in session has lost his appeal against his murder...

Former soldier convicted of quadruple murder loses appeal

Published:Friday | July 31, 2015 | 12:00 AMBarbara Gayle, Justice Coordinator

The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of former Jamaica Defence Force corporal Leslie Moodie, but has overturned his sentence of death. The former JDF soldier was convicted in 2010 for the murders of four men in a nightclub along Washington...

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