Justice Franklyn Holder is expected to rule on Monday on the application made by former Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh and former Head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, to stay the Magistrate’s Court from proceeding with charges of alleged misconduct in public office against them.
In a more than three-hour in-chamber hearing yesterday afternoon, the judge heard arguments from both the men’s attorneys and lawyers for the state—each side respectively advancing why the application should and should not be granted.
After hearing those arguments, Justice Holder adjourned the matter to Monday for ruling.
Attorney Anil Nandlall, one of the attorneys representing the men, had previously made, but was denied an oral interim application for the proceedings to be stayed until the determination of their challenge to the actual charges laid against them.
