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Busi­ness­man Michael St John is ex­pect­ed to learn the fate of his law­suit, over a T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) data­base con­tain­ing false in­for­ma­tion of him be­ing con­vict­ed of drug traf­fick­ing in the Unit­ed States (US) and sub­se­quent­ly de­port­ed, on Oc­to­ber 1.

High Court Judge Na­dia Kan­ga­loo re­served her judg­ment for that date as she gave case man­age­ment di­rec­tions dur­ing a hear­ing of St John’s case against the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, yes­ter­day.

In the law­suit, St John’s lawyers, led by Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj, SC, and Om Lal­la, are con­tend­ing that the TTPS failed in its du­ty to cor­rect the in­ac­cu­rate in­for­ma­tion in its Versedex data­base as re­quired un­der Sec­tion 36(1) of the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA).