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Judge rules police raid on media house unconstitutional Wednesday 13 January 2021 THE police raid on a media house in March last year has been deemed unconstitutional by the court. Justice Frank Seepersad held on Wednesday that the two search warrants obtained by the police for the media house in search of information which could lead them to a journalist’s source were “plainly irregular,” unlawful and unconstitutional, as they disproportionally infringed on the media house’s rights to freedom of the press. “The decision to issue the warrants failed to strike the required balance be...

Judge to rule in January on Express House raid Friday 11 December 2020 A HIGH COURT judge will rule in January on the constitutionality of a police raid on a media house in March. At the end of submissions at the virtual trial on Friday, Justice Frank Seepersad set January 13 for his ruling on the constitutional claim filed by One Caribbean Media Group Ltd, the Trinidad Express Newspapers and editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder against the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Police and Supt Wendell Lucas, who led the raid on March 11. The media house has contended that the warrants issued by a jus...