'Hataclapse... Monday!'

Daraine Luton, Senior Staff Reporter

K.D. KNIGHT, the nemesis of Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne, was quiet in the Senate yesterday, but Manatt nonetheless got a brief seat in the Upper House.

A.J. Nicholson, the leader of opposition business, joked in quiet cross-talk to government senator Dwight Nelson that come next week when Lightbourne is faced by Knight in cross-examination, it would be no laughing matter.

"Hataclapse Monday!" Nicholson promised in response to Nelson who had said: "No Manatt today."

Nicholson was in the process of taking his seat after informing the president of the Senate that he might not be able to sit beyond 11:30 a.m. He asked that the debate on the report on Jamaica's defamation law be postponed.

The debate on the report was not taken.

Knight is the lead attorney for the People's National Party at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry to examine the manner in which the Government handled the extradition request for then fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

Lightbourne delayed signing the authority to proceed for nine months. She is now being asked to justify her actions.