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The Court of Appeal will start hearing arguments tomorrow to determine whether entertainer Vybz Kartel and three other men should be retried for the alleged murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams in 2011.

Vindicated Lorne slams GLC following Privy Council ruling

The no-case submission by the defence team representing former Petrojam General Manager Floyd Grindley and former Chairman Dr Perceval Singh was part heard yesterday with the prosecution in the line of fire, heavily criticised as being disingenuous...

Cases in which Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn KC ruled on or prosecuted during the time she was in office when she got the second extension cannot be declared to be invalid under the Constitution. The Constitutional Court ruled...

THE FOUR women charged in connection with the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 are to return to the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on September 17, for plea and case management hearing. Alysia Moulton White, a...

Attorney-at-law, Bert Samuels, says he strongly believes the conviction against dancehall artist Vybz Kartel and his three co-convicts will be overturned. "We were concerned that the Court of Appeal of Jamaica did not give enough weight to the concern we had concerning the juror who was alleged to have been attempting to  bribe the jury. We felt that once that was exposed, the judge ought to have stopped the case...

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is expected to rule in a few months on the fate of dancehall star Vybz Kartel and his three murder co-convicts following an adjournment of their appeal hearing on Thursday. The second and final day saw...

United Kingdom Privy Council judges, examining the appeal of dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel’s 2014 murder conviction, have asked attorneys to come back today with additional submissions on their arguments around the ‘tainted jury’, which was of deep...

Valentine’s Day marks the beginning of a two-day hearing by the Privy Council in the United Kingdom for convicts Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer, Shawn ‘Shawn Storm’ Campbell, Kahira Jones , and Andre St John. Their case will be heard by Lord Reed,...

Senior attorney-at-law Bert Samuels says he is always wary of the court going ahead without the public viewing as the debate regarding media and family being locked out of the Jolyan Silvera murder case rages on. Silvera, 52, a former People’s...