THE Tax Appeal Board has ruled in favour of a local meat processing company in a long-standing dispute with the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) over the Value Added Tax (VAT) rating for its chicken-based products. In a landmrk decision delivered by the board’s chairman Anthony Gafoor and board member Roland Hosein, the tribunal quashed...
THE High Court has ruled in favour of a Penal businessman over the prolonged detention of nine high-end vehicles seized by the Customs and Excise Division in 2020. Justice Nadia Kangaloo ruled that the detention of Kess Kessoondan’s vehicles was unlawful. The court granted summary judgment in his favour, ordering the immediate return of the...
The comptroller of the Customs and Excise Division has been given two months to develop clear guidelines for the importation of adult toys. High Court Judge Westmin James issued the directive on Wednesday as he upheld a lawsuit from adult store owner Ronna Zamora Rodriguez, of Intimate Affairs, whose shipments of adult toys were seized...
A large group of former Special Reserve Police officers (SRPs) have won their case over delays in paying them salary arrears after they were absorbed into the T&T Police Service (TTPS) in 2009. In a recent judgment, High Court Judge Joan Charles upheld a judicial review case over the delay brought by 54 officers. Guardian...
A firearm dealer and three long-standing firearm user’s licence (FUL) holders have scored a major victory in their lawsuit over a new process for the renewal of FULs. Delivering a judgment yesterday, High Court Judge Ricky Rahim ruled that the new procedure introduced by now-suspended police commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher in December 2023, could not apply...
The Government is making good on its pledge to make amendments to regulations for the ongoing State of Emergency (SoE) related to public order. Shortly after the SoE was proclaimed and the associated regulations published late last year, lawyers representing Vishal Persad, who is the administrator of the blog “Millennials for Change”, filed a lawsuit...
An attorney is seeking the public’s views on two major changes to the United Kingdom-based Privy Council (PC) that are currently under consideration. In a Facebook post yesterday, attorney Kiel Taklalsingh sought views on a move to include judges from Commonwealth jurisdictions such as T&T that still have the PC as their final appellate court...
Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher has agreed to return three licensed firearms to a former soldier, who served on the security detail for former police commissioner Gary Griffith. The man, whose name was withheld due to security concerns raised by his lawyers, filed a judicial review lawsuit in March, after Harewood-Christopher revoked variations to his firearm...
Attorney Kiel Taklalsingh has described this country’s Sedition Law as being too broad and warns that it could be abused by the authorities to infringe on the rights of individuals. Speaking with Guardian Media on Friday, Taklalsingh who represented the former head of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Sharma, during a 2019 challenge to...
REPUBLIC Bank Ltd (RBL) has been found liable for a break-in at its Couva branch in 2022 which led to the theft of a pensioner’s valuables from a safety deposit box. “I find that the defendant’s security systems fell short and below the required standard and the claimant is entitled to judgment,” Justice Carol Gobin...
