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Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2018/Part F Evidence/Section F17 Exceptions to the Rule against Hearsay (Excluding Confessions)/HEARSAY EXCEPTIONS: (1) HEARSAY ADMISSIBLE BY AGREEMENT, UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES AND BUSINESS DOCUMENTS/Business and Other Documents Business and Other Documents F17.25 Criminal Justice Act 2003, s. 117 (1) In criminal proceedings a statement contained in a document is admissible as evidence of any matter stated if-- (a) oral evidence given in the proceedings would be admissible as evidence of that matter, (b) the requirements of subsection (2) are satisfied, and (c) the requirements of subsection (5) are satisfied, in a case where subsection (4) requires them...

13 March

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The start of MAGCO’s Caribbean expansion. Mr. Martin George was called to the Bar in Dominica today.

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CONGRATULATIONS MR. MARTIN GEORGE!!! ...

13 March

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Statement by Martin George Chairman of the Tobago BUSINESS CHAMBER

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Statement by Martin George Chairman of the Tobago BUSINESS CHAMBER, on the cancellations of Tobago Jazz and Tobago Cruise ship arrivals and the effect on Tobago businesses. [audio ogg="https://martingeorge.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/WhatsApp-Audio-2020-03-13-at-2.40.21-PM.ogg"][/audio]...

10 March

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Judge warns of crisis in health sector because of Nursing Council impasse

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A HIGH COURT judge has warned that the health care sector could find itself in crisis mode if decisions taken by the Nursing Council between April to early October 2019 are not ratified. Justice Frank Seepersad has also urged that elections for the council’s executive be held as a matter of urgency.” In a decision on Monday, Seepersad voided all the decisions made by the council from April 19 to early October 2019, saying they were invalid since the council did not have the power to hold over in office after the expiration of its term. The council’s three-year term ended on April...

10 March

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Nursing Council decisions declared invalid

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Derek Achong All decisions made by the Nursing Council of T&T since the end its members’ term last April have been invalidated. This was the outcome of a lawsuit over the management of the organisation, brought by former president David Murphy after he was ousted in August, last year. In a 22-page judgement delivered at the Hall of Justice in Port-of-Spain yesterday morning, High Court Judge Frank Seepersad ruled that there was no provision under the Nursing Personnel Act, which established the council and dictates functions to extend the powers of its members past their three-year term. As a result, Seepersad ruled that any...

06 March

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Judge finds SWRHA guilty of negligence

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A high court judge has found the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) guilty of medical negligence in the death of 30-year-old Navin Singh. In a ruling on Friday at the San Fernando Supreme Court, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams found the man was misdiagnosed and that doctors at the Princes Town Health centre did not carry out sufficient tests which would have shown that Singh had a flesh-eating bug and not sciatia. Singh died less than 48 hours after he was twice misdiagnosed by doctors at the Princes Town Health centre when he was actually dying from the flesh-eating bug virus necrotizing fasciitis. After...

06 March

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Autopsy on first-time mom shows 13 gallstones led to infection

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Mon Apr 20 2015 An autopsy performed on the body of first-time mom Keisha Ayers has revealed had 13 gallstones in her bladder which caused an infection. It also revealed she developed blood clots. The autopsy was done yesterday at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex mortuary, Mount Hope. Relatives of Ayers' common-law-husband Juma Charles went to the hospital to identify her body and view the autopsy, as he was too distraught to even leave his Chennette Crescent, Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, home. The report revealed the cause of death was due to bilateral pulmonary thrombo-emboli; Deep vein thrombosis and cholelithiasis. A medical doctor, who...

06 March

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Permission to challenge Deyalsingh

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Over 3,000 nurses have been granted leave to challenge the Health Minister’s decision to appoint selected members to the Nursing Council before any elected members were appointed. They were also granted permission to seek declarations that the decision of the minister to appoint David Murphy as a member of the council. The nurses were given permission to challenge the minister by Justice Devindra Rampersad. They are seeking several declarations which also ask the court to find that the minister’s decision to allow his six selected members to elect a president of the council and an executive when there are no other...

06 March

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