| Jamaican judge appointed to hear inquiry cases | | Print | |
| Written by Richard Green/richard@fptci.com | |||
| Friday, 06 July 2012 11:19 | |||
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The former president of Jamaica’s Court of Appeal has been appointed to try the cases of five former Turks and Caicos Islands government ministers and others, beginning with hearings set for July 11. Justice Paul T. Harrison, O.J., C.D., J.P, has been appointed to the TCI Supreme Court from July 10 until June 30, 2014, to handle the cases of those prosecuted by the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT), according a June 29 order by Chief Justice Edwin Goldsbrough. Harrison worked as a Crown prosecutor from 1970 until 1974, when he was appointed to the Resident Magistrate’s Court. He presided there for 11 years until he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1985. After spending 12 years on the Supreme Court, Harrison was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1997. He served as president of the court from 2005 until 2007, when he was named to the Privy Council. Jamaica’s Privy Council advises the governor-general on the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy and the discipline of the civil service, local government officers and the police in cases where appeals are made. In 2009 Harrison served as the sole commissioner in an inquiry into a fatal fire at Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in Jamaica. In 2010 he was a member of a tribunal of inquiry into alleged wrongdoing of members of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission. Harrison received the Commander of the Order of Distinction in 2005 and the Order of Jamaica in 2006. The judge will begin his service on the TCI bench with plea and direction hearings for some of the 13 people charged in criminal investigations prompted by a Commission of Inquiry in 2009. SIPT says the charges involve fraudulent Crown land transactions, bribery of government officials by developers and money laundering. Five of those charged are former government ministers: Floyd Hall, Jeffery Hall, Lillian Boyce, Samuel Been and McAllister Hanchell. Also charged are lawyers Chal Misick, Clayton Greene and Melbourne Wilson, and developers Jak Civre and Richard Padgett. Others facing charges are Floyd Hall’s wife Lisa and brother Quentin, and Boyce’s brother Earlson Robinson. Former premier Michael Misick is subject of an Interpol notice for his arrest, but he says he is seeking asylum in an undisclosed country to escape political persecution.
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