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sto­ries by Derek Achong

The rel­a­tives of a man from Diego Mar­tin, re­spon­si­ble for a land­mark case which al­lowed bail to be con­sid­ered for peo­ple charged with mur­der, are set to re­ceive a lit­tle over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion.

In 2022, the Court of Ap­peal and the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil both up­held a nov­el case from Ak­ili Charles chal­leng­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of a blan­ket pro­hi­bi­tion pre­vent­ing ju­di­cial of­fi­cers from con­sid­er­ing bail for those ac­cused of the cap­i­tal of­fence.