Finding a breach of natural justice, acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire SC yesterday quashed a deportation order which had been issued against the 26 Haitian nationals who were detained for weeks last year by the government at the state-run Hugo Chavez Centre for Rehabilitation and Reintegration.
In a brief oral ruling, the Chief Justice said that the foreign nationals ought to have been first taken to court and given a chance to be heard before being ordered to be deported.
Additionally, finding no merit in an application filed by Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC to have the matter struck out, the Chief Justice refused that request.
