Trinidad Express News­pa­pers Ltd has emerged victorious in an appeal filed by the Office of the Attorney General, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and police Supt Wendell Lucas after the Court of Appeal ruled that a search carried out at the newspaper’s offi­ces breached its constitutional right to press freedom.

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, Justices of Appeal Nolan Bereaux and Peter Rajkumar formed the majority, while Justice James Aboud delivered a dissenting opinion.

The case stemmed from a 2020 investigative report written by journalist Denyse Renne and published by the newspaper which detailed suspicious financial activity in­volving a senior police officer.