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...
A journalist has apologised to contractor Krishna Lalla for an online publication he wrote and posted on two websites in 2020. Aleem Khan also agreed to retract the article published on February 20, 2020, headlined: Where did the money go? Lalla’s Panama properties found, on his www.news.co.tt and www.connectas.org websites. Khan’s apology and agreement were...
Attorneys at Sovereign Chambers to test bank's discretion to increase a homeowners mortgage rate. The standard homeowner's mortgage agreement contains a clause which permits a bank to increas..
Muslim prisoners awaiting trial for murder have threatened to sue acting Commissioner of Prisons Deodath Ramoutar over his refusal to allow them to obtain Halal...
