Ziplaw Legal News http://www.ziplaw.com/news/ en Copyright 2012 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:32:38 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Cop arrested for corruption A District Constable assigned to the St Catherine North Division has been arrested by members of the Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) on reasonable suspicion of breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008825.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008825.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 10:32:38 -0500 Four alleged robbers held in Ocho Rios OCHO RIOS, St Ann - The police yesterday held four men who were allegedly involved in armed robberies that took place earlier in Colegate and Moneague in St Ann....

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Author: Alesia Edwards
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008824.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008824.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 10:27:37 -0500 Nov 26 trial for accused in ATL pension fraud THE three former Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) executives who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the group's Pension Fund and Gorstew Ltd are to be tried on November 26....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008823.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008823.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 10:24:10 -0500 Lotto scam accused goes free; husband remanded A woman who was on Tuesday remanded into custody for her alleged involvement in the lotto scam on Wednesday walked free from the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court after the case against her was thrown out because of insufficient evidence....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008822.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008822.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 10:16:23 -0500 Court backs COK on recovery of debt from Intertrade In a judgment handed down last week, a Supreme Court judge ruled that business transacted under contract with a cambio dealer has greater protection than investors in securities, even when both services are offered by the same company.

It was on that basis that Justice Ingrid Mangatal ruled that COK Sodality Co-operative Credit Union could recover a debt of US$2 million (J$171.4 million) from Intertrade Finance Corporation relating to a transaction with the financial firm's cambio.

Mangatal also ruled against the Financial Services Commission (FSC), which has taken temporary management of Intertrade and had sought to stay the continuance of COK proceedings on grounds that it would be in the best interest of customers and creditors.

COK Sodality, itself a licensed cambio dealer, filed the suit after Intertrade failed to honour a contractual arrangement to purchase US currency with the Jamaican dollars it paid to Intertrade. The firm was ordered to shutter its operation around that same time by the FSC.

The case largely rests on a determination of whether all the parties with whom Intertrade did business have contributed to a collective investment and have suffered common misfortune, and whether they all should be treated equally as regards the distribution of funds available.

COK has maintained that it was in a different position from the investors in Intertrade's securities business because it was neither a creditor nor an investor....

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Author: McPherse Thompson
Source: Jamaica gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008820.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008820.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 09:48:24 -0500 Umbrella gang members convicted of shooting charges THE top brass of the St Catherine South Police Division have been patting themselves on the back after two alleged top-ranking members of Portmore's Umbrella Gang were convicted in the Gun Court division of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Travis McPherson, aka 'Shrek', and Odean Samuels, aka 'Zeeks', were found guilty of shooting at members of the St Catherine South Fugitive Apprehension Team in June 2009. The men are to be sentenced on June 3.

McPherson and Samuels, described by St Catherine South's Senior Superintendent Colin Pinnock as being among the top-five members of the notorious Newland-Naggo Head-based gang, were among four men charged for the incident and who appeared before Justice Sarah Thompson-James.

The other two were freed as the Crown, whose case was marshalled by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor, had no evidence that they had shot at the police on the night of June 12.

Cops' testimony

Two police personnel involved in the shoot-out, Sergeant Rodney Matthews and District Constable Jason McKay, testified that they were part of a specially trained unit sent into Newland, on foot, to locate heavily armed men in the volatile area, the hub of gangland activities in Portmore....

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Author: Ainsley Walters
Source: Jamaica gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008819.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008819.htm Fri, 18 May 2012 09:24:58 -0500 Ellington bats for amendment to Evidence Act MONTEGO BAY, St James - Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has reiterated that amendment to the Evidence Act which would allow lottery scam victims abroad to give evidence from their homeland, will be of great assistance in the local law enforcement's struggle to arrest the cyber crime....

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Author: Horace Hines
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008818.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008818.htm Thu, 17 May 2012 11:31:20 -0500 8 arrested in connection with lottery scam MEMBERS of the Area One Lottery Scam Task Force, with the assistance of the JDF and police officers from Kingston, yesterday conducted an operation between 5: 00 pm and 11:00 pm at a Madison Drive address in Havendale, St Andrew, and arrested eight persons including two females....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008817.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008817.htm Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:00 -0500 Nigerian found in ceiling during coke bust TWO Nigerian nationals, a man and his wife, and one Jamaican male, were arrested in an operation that was conducted on Westminister Road, Kingston 10, yesterday....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008816.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008816.htm Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:18 -0500 RM revokes station bail granted to lotto scam accused A Clarendon woman suspected to be a part of the much-publicised lottery scam yesterday had her station bail revoked by Senior Corporate Area Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey, who chastised the police for admitting her to bail in the first place....

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Author: Tanesha Mundle
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008815.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008815.htm Thu, 17 May 2012 09:33:07 -0500 Cabbie killer gets life sentence CONVICTED murderer Edward Bitter will have to serve 20 years of his life sentence for the 2006 murder of a taxi operator in Kingston before becoming eligible for parole....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008814.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008814.htm Wed, 16 May 2012 10:20:06 -0500 Men accused of making fake bank statement granted bail TWO men were hauled before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court last Friday for reportedly giving an ex-policeman a fake bank statement which he took to the British High Commission to apply for a visa....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008813.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008813.htm Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:27 -0500 Man caught with ganja on toll road to be sentenced May 21 A man who last week pleaded guilty for trafficking a little over 48 pounds of ganja was remanded into custody and is scheduled to be sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on May 21....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008812.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008812.htm Wed, 16 May 2012 10:12:34 -0500 Way cleared for FTC to challenge Digicel/Claro merger THE Fair Trading Commission (FTC) was yesterday cleared by the Supreme Court to challenge the controversial merger between telecoms giant Digicel and the now defunct Claro....

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Author: Paul Henry
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008811.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008811.htm Wed, 16 May 2012 10:01:12 -0500 ISRAEL - Justice for 2006 bombing victims An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a US court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and 10 others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director said yesterday.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Centre that represents victims of Palestinian violence said Tuesday that the group had won courtroom victories against Iran but never before against Syria.

The centre was representing the family of 16-year-old Daniel Wultz of Florida, who was among 11 killed when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber set off his explosives at a Tel Aviv restaurant six years ago. Daniel's father was severely injured in the attack.

Iran supports Jihad

Darshan-Leitner said that Iran supports the Islamic Jihad movement financially while Syria had granted the group a haven to train in its territory....

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Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008810.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/008810.htm Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:46 -0500