Ziplaw Legal News http://www.ziplaw.com/news/ en Copyright 2010 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:43 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judge urges JCA to reform rules THE Supreme Court has upheld a ruling by the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) regarding the use of an ineligible player, but has urged the local body to reform their laws....

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Author: Andrew Hancel
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005437.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005437.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:43 -0500 15 year old tear-gas teacher for criticising Al-Qaeda LYON, France (AFP) -- A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with tear gas after she described Al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told AFP yesterday as prosecutors began an investigation....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005436.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005436.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:56 -0500 Pakistan enacts law outlawing harrassment of women in workplace ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed a law yesterday that outlaws harassment of women in the workplace and sets punishments of up to three months in prison for offenders, his office said....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005435.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005435.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:25:17 -0500 Police blotters: paraplegic among 4 murder victims Paraplegic shot dead in his home

TWENTY-year-old Cherado Gooden, otherwise called 'Ackee', a paraplegic of Logwood district in Westmoreland, was shot and killed by a gunman at his home last night.

Reports are that about 11:10 pm, Gooden was at home when a gunman entered his room. The gunman opened fire hitting Gooden several times before escaping in the area. He died on the spot.

The Savanna-la-Mar CIB is investigating.

Two men killed in separate incidents in St James

TWENTY-five-year-old Daryl Simpson of Salt Spring and Liston Dodd, 26, of Garlands, both in St James, were shot dead in separate incidents in the parish yesterday.

Police said they were contacted after 1:00 pm by residents of Dun Lane in Salt Spring who heard gunshots. When officers arrived they found Simpson's bullet-riddled body in the road. ...

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005434.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005434.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:20:25 -0500 Portmore woman accused of misappropriation gets bail A former employee of Serv-Wel Industrial Ltd who is accused of pocketing almost $5 million from the company, was last Friday offered bail in the sum of $1 million when she appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005433.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005433.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:16:20 -0500 Appeal Court to hear lawyer's challenge to suspension THE Court of Appeal is to next Tuesday scheduled to hear an application from Kingston attorney Oswald James for a stay of his one-year suspension from legal practice....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005432.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005432.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:14:05 -0500 Antiguan Gov't shuns Stanford THE Antiguan Government yesterday sought to distance itself from Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire financier who is now in a US federal jail facing charges that he directed a US$7-billion fraud against investors....

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Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005431.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005431.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:44 -0500 Security forces soon to lose power to investigate themselves THE House of Representatives yesterday passed the Independent Commission of Investigations Act, which will take power from the security forces to investigate themselves....

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Author: Lynford Simpson
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005430.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005430.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:39:06 -0500 Corruption charges for Munster Road detainees The police sergeant and the businessman implicated in the Munster Road gun-and-ammunition find have been remanded on corruption charges.

Sergeant Russell Robinson and businessman Garnett Pennington appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

They are to return to court on March 29 to answer to the charge of breaching the Corruption Prevention Act.

Russell is alleged to have asked the police party which was apprehending him to free him and allow him to run off.

Pennington is alleged to have offered to pay a policeman to free him after a gun was found in furniture at a house he occupied and hundreds of rounds of illegal ammunition were found at his shop.

Robinson and Pennington are to return to the Gun Court today on charges relating to 19 firearms and 10,000 rounds of ammunition that were stolen from the police armoury.

Their two alleged accomplices - Charles Morris and David Blagrove - will also appear in the Gun Court.

Worked at armoury

Morris, Blagove and Robinson worked at the police armoury.

Bail applications will be made when the four appear in court today. Robinson is charged with 18 counts illegal possession of firearm; one count of breaching the Corruption Prevention Act; one count illegal possession of ammunition and one count storehouse breaking and larceny....

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Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005429.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005429.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:19:57 -0500 FINSAC review set for May 25 he judicial review into the eligibility of retired Court of Appeal judge Boyd Carey to sit on the panel probing the 1990s financial sector meltdown has been set for May 25.

The hearing is estimated to last four days. The date was set yesterday morning when the disputing parties appeared before Chief Justice Zaila McCalla in chambers.

Former finance
minister, Dr Omar Davies; retired financial secretary, Shirley Tyndall; the Jamaican Redevelopment Foundation and Patrick Hylton, the former head of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC), filed the motion last month in the Supreme Court.

Injunction granted

The four were successful in stopping the commission of enquiry into the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s after the motion was filed. Supreme Court judge Ingrid Mangatal granted them an injunction and also granted an application for them to apply for leave to go to the Judicial Review Court....

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Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005428.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005428.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:17:30 -0500 Killing highlights Ocho Rios transport woes A fatal stabbing incident at the Ocho Rios Transport Centre in St Ann has exposed the inability of the police to adequately protect some travellers in the parish.

Two men were stabbed to death during an altercation at the transport centre yesterday morning, after relatives of a female student sought to protect her from men who had threatened her a day earlier.

The dead men have been identified as Michael Jackson, otherwise called 'Mad Dawg', 25, of Carib Heights, and Jason Peart, known as 'Evil Head', also 25, of Buckfield, both in Ocho Rios.

Fifty-three-year-old taxi driver Horace Woodburn, who was also injured in the incident, was still in critical condition in the St Ann's Bay Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Reports are that on Monday, a schoolgirl who attends the Retreat Primary and Junior High School in St Mary was waiting in the transportation centre for a ride to school when she was threatened by a man with a knife.

Fearing for her safety, the student returned home and did not go to school that day.

On Tuesday, Woodburn, the child's father, and one of his sons accompanied the girl to the bus park to get her a ride to school. The young student had refused to go alone, saying she was still scared....

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Author: Carl Gilchrist
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005427.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005427.htm Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:11:40 -0500 No oath, no conviction ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- A Michigan man sent to prison for 15 years is getting a new trial after the judge failed to do a routine procedure -- ask the jury to take an oath....

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Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005426.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005426.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:13:10 -0500 Setback for abused women JAMAICA'S refusal to sign on to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) is blocking women who are being abused from getting compensation from the State in cases where police are negligent....

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Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005425.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005425.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:01:42 -0500 Disgraced ex-deacon to face trial on May 3 Former church deacon, 49-year-old Donovan Jones, who is charged with human trafficking involving a 14-year-old schoolgirl, is to face trial on May 3 in the Home Circuit Court.

The case was set for trial Monday but had to be put off because the investigating officer was unavailable. The other witnesses in the case did not attend and the court was told that the police were in contact with them.

Supreme Court judge Lloyd Hibbert was not happy with the arrangement.

"The Crown does not grant adjournments and the Crown is not obliged to tell witnesses not to come to court," the judge emphasised. The judge warned that if cases were ready and could not proceed because witnesses were told not to come, that could be treated as contempt of court on the part of the Crown. Witnesses must come to court so they can be bound over for another date if the case is not proceeding, the judge said.

Granted bail

Jones was granted bail after he was arrested and charged in 2006. He is being represented by attorney-at-law Paul Beswick....

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Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005424.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005424.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:16:25 -0500 McCalla hears FINSAC complaint today Chief Justice Zaila McCalla is to preside today in chambers over the first hearing into the claim brought by four persons who were successful last month in stopping the commission of enquiry into the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s.

Leave was granted last month for the claimants to go to the Judicial Review Court to apply for orders to bar retired Court of Appeal judge Boyd Carey from continuing to sit on the commission of enquiry.

Supreme Court judge Ingrid Mangatal granted the claimants, who include former Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies, an injunction which stops the enquiry until the matter has been heard by the Judicial Review Court.

Lawyers in the matter will today finalise the date
for the hearing by the Judicial Review Court. They will also decide the length of the hearing and the time limit for submissions.

It is the claimants' contention that Justice Carey, the chairman of the enquiry, had a debt with the Financial Sector Adjustment Sector (FINSAC) and was a member of family business Bev Carey and Associates, which had a debt with FINSAC....

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Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner

]]> http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005423.htm http://www.ziplaw.com/news/archives/005423.htm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:12:57 -0500