Boat captain fined $90K for manslaughter
From BVI News Stephen Fossi, the New Zealand national who captained the ill-fated boat that crashed into a reef last year and killed two persons, was fined a total $90,000 in the High Court yesterday on the two manslaughter charges…
Criminal record disclosure checks ruled ‘unlawful’
From BBC Two people who claimed their careers were being blighted by having to disclose their minor criminal convictions to employers have won their case at the High Court. The court ruled the criminal record checks scheme used in England…
Trinidad court of appeal allows election challenge to proceed
From Caribbean News Now PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — In a majority decision, the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal has allowed the election petition brought by the United National Congress (UNC) to proceed. The ruling was handed down on…
Bakr loses wrongful arrest lawsuit, must pay State
By Susan Mohammed From Trinidad Express YASIN Abu Bakr, leader of the Jamaat Al Muslimeen, was on Monday ordered by a High Court judge to pay the State after a lawsuit of wrongful arrest he filed was thrown out of…
Open letter from Anthony Astaphan SC to Mondaq
21st September, 2015 Mr Charles Aspinwall Mondaq London Office Dear Sir, I am instructed by the Honourable Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda and the Attorney General on behalf of the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda with regard…
Internet retailers press their claims in High Court
By Jamie Schuman, From Supreme Court Brief ’Tis the season for online gift-buying, and a fitting time for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl, a case involving the rights of Internet retailers. At issue is…
Retired judge Sir John Royce criticises legal cuts
From BBC Sir John Royce Sir John Royce said it “saddened him” to advise his own sons not to join the publicly-funded bar A recently retired High Court judge has said he thinks government cuts to the legal system have…
Tourist sues after contracting “life-threatening illness” at Caribbean resort
From Caribbean360 LONDON, England, Tuesday October 14, 2014 – British tourist Sarah Bowes-Phipps’ dream Caribbean holiday abruptly turned into a nightmare when she allegedly came down with such a severe case of food poisoning that she had to have her…
The Bewley’s Supreme Court Verdict [on rent payable under a lease]
Article by Diarmuid Mawe and Kevin Harnett From Maples and Calder The Supreme Court, in a decision given on 1 July 2014, has overturned a High Court judgment on the interpretation of the rent payable under a lease of the…
Trinidad high court dismisses claims filed by insurance agents against CLICO
From Caribbean360 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Thursday January 16, 2014, CMC – A High Court judge has dismissed claims filed by two insurance agents challenging the constitutionality of the Central Bank (Amendment) Act 2011, which they said prevented them from taking legal…
