Understanding the Law
May 3, 2019
You are choking up your neighbour’s drain with leaves. You were asked to prune your trees that are throwing up all the leaves on your neighbour’s prop...
Understanding the Law
April 26, 2019
Each and every one of us has a right to life. It is enshrined in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every human being has the inh...
Understanding the Law
April 18, 2019
Mosquitoes are on the rampage. They never seem to stop looking for blood. I think they should be doomed to extinction, but that is only if we make a c...
Understanding the Law
March 29, 2019
The words “probable cause” are used very often in criminal matters. They are on the mind of every police officer when he confronts a suspect and when ...
Understanding the Law
March 22, 2019
International Women’s Day was celebrated on March 8, 2019. The theme was #BalanceforBetter, emphasizing “a more gender balanced world” calling for “th...
Understanding the Law
March 15, 2019
March 4, 2019, or there about, several persons sent me a report that originated from the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force. It was to ...
Understanding the Law
March 8, 2019
The Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act No. 20 of 1940 (amended many times) is a comprehensive act that covers, amazingly, almost everything concernin...
Understanding the Law
March 1, 2019
Running down actions occupy a considerable amount of the court’s time. These are actions by persons who have suffered injuries or property losses due ...
Understanding the Law
February 22, 2019
Many lay persons shy away from focusing on the law because, as they claim, there are too many unfamiliar and ‘big words” in the law. The words and phr...
Understanding the Law
February 15, 2019
According to the Noise control Act, the Physical Planning and Development Board developed under the Town and Country Planning Act, can, if it is satis...
Understanding the Law
February 8, 2019
A tort is a civil wrong (as opposed to a criminal wrong) done to someone for which there is a remedy in the civil court. Torts are committed by and ag...
Understanding the Law
February 1, 2019
The Online dictionary defines an arrest as “a seizure or forcible restraint, an exercise of the power to deprive a person of his liberty, the taking i...
Understanding the Law
January 25, 2019
WE LEARNED IN the last article that a judgment creditor is the party who obtains a judgment or order in court in his favour, regarding a debt, while t...
Understanding the Law
January 18, 2019
Judgment is given in favour of a party in a case before the court if the facts are on his side. A judgment is regarded as an oral judgment when the ju...
Understanding the Law
January 11, 2019
THE LAW MAKES provisions to set aside or vary a default judgment but what is a default judgment? Default Judgment A default judgment is a judgment tha...
Understanding the Law
January 4, 2019
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW is that body of laws that must be observed by the State and the agents of the State. You have been hearing quite a lot about crimin...
Understanding the Law
December 28, 2018
HOW DID YOU make out with your resolutions last year? Some of us made them at the beginning of the year, but half way through we fell through with the...
Understanding the Law
December 21, 2018
Christmas is in the air and the barrels of love from families overseas are pouring in. The customs are busy with the increased volume of work to make ...
Understanding the Law
December 14, 2018
No man should strike a woman or cause her harm. Two persons should be able to settle their differences through reasoning. If this cannot be done then ...
Understanding the Law
August 31, 2018
What is red tape? The online dictionary describes it as excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities especially in public business. The...
Understanding the Law
August 24, 2018
The above statement is a powerful statement with significant consequences. It comes from the prosecutor in criminal cases, and it could lead to the en...
Understanding the Law
August 17, 2018
Last week the emphasis was on the service of the claim form within the jurisdiction. After the claim is served it becomes necessary to serve other doc...
News
May 9, 2025
The last thing that the Bagga Fish Fest Committee wants to do is shut down the event, but with the disturbing number of children who are present at Fi...
News
May 9, 2025
The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has brought attention to what has been described as “an urgent but often overlooked challenge of our time”...
From the Courts, News
May 9, 2025
A Lodge Village mother of three, who is well known at several Massy Stores as a thief, may face up to two years in prison after she was caught again, ...
From the Courts, News
May 9, 2025
A police officer, alleged to have aided and abetted a civilian to break traffic regulations, has been charged, and will appear in court on May 12,2025...
From the Courts, News
May 9, 2025
A 45-year-old farmer of Park Hill, who pleaded guilty to a charge of handling stolen goods was fined, bonded, and ordered to make restitution when he ...
