A 20-year-old man de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) is threat­en­ing ju­di­cial re­view and con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­ceed­ings against the State of Emer­gency (SoE) Re­view Tri­bunal and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, claim­ing he has been de­nied ac­cess to le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion de­spite pro­vi­sions in the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions (EPR).

In a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter dat­ed Au­gust 14, at­tor­ney Keron Ramkhal­whan, act­ing for de­tainee Ja­maalee “Maly” Wil­son, ar­gued that the re­view tri­bunal un­law­ful­ly failed to con­sid­er ex­er­cis­ing its pow­er to ap­point le­gal coun­sel for de­tainees and in­stead di­rect­ed Wil­son’s fam­i­ly to seek as­sis­tance from the Le­gal Aid and Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty.

Wil­son has been de­tained at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) since a PDO was is­sued against him on Ju­ly 18.