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A HIGH COURT judge has ordered the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to reconsider a chief petty officer’s promotion in the Coast Guard (TTCG) after declaring that his constitutional rights were infringed.

In a ruling on March 28, Justice Ricky Rahim quashed the CDS’s decision not to promote Hayden De Four while ordering the Defence Force boss to consider his qualifications, experience and training within 30 days and inform him 14 days after.

The State was ordered to compensate De Four for the CDS’s unfair and irrational actions and breach of his constitutional rights. The CDS and the Attorney General were also ordered to pay De Four’s legal costs.