CCJ overrules Court of Appeal in case

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled in favour of Malweg Darnley in a case against Joy Reid and Anthony Reid and ordered that a decision of the Guyana Court of Appeal that it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear the matter be set aside and that the local court set the date to hear Darnley’s appeal to it as soon as possible.

Delivered on December 17th, 2014 the CCJ ruling again raised concern about the lengthy delay in arriving at decisions in the local court and the absence of written reasons for judgments.

The CCJ judgment noted that the Guyana Court of Appeal heard the motion on 28th November 2012 but did not