The Court of Ap­peal does not have the ju­ris­dic­tion to con­sid­er ap­peals chal­leng­ing de­ci­sions of High Court Mas­ters to di­rect that per­sons ac­cused of se­ri­ous crim­i­nal of­fences face tri­al af­ter as­sess­ing the suf­fi­cien­cy of the ev­i­dence against them.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment last Fri­day, Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Maria Wil­son and Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son dis­missed an ap­peal, brought by a for­mer Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) ex­ec­u­tive and a di­rec­tor of a con­struc­tion com­pa­ny ac­cused of cor­rup­tion.

In Ju­ly 2018, Wen­dell Di­az, the for­mer head of pro­cure­ment and lo­gis­tics at WASA and Michael Ar­june, di­rec­tor of Kall Co Ltd were charged.