THE Appeal Court on Friday backed the July 31, 2025 ruling of Supreme Court judge Justice Althea Jarrett blocking the disclosure of certain files in the legal battle between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and the Integrity Commission (IC).

According to the court, in a ruling handed down on Friday, Justice Jarrett “approached each issue with the requisite care and applied the governing legal principles in a manner that cannot be faulted”.

Justice Jarrett had granted the parties leave to appeal her 2025 ruling wherein she refused an application by the prime minister’s team for disclosure of several unredacted documents, and rejected its application to strike out aspects of the then Integrity Commission’s director of information’s affidavit based on them “being irrelevant and an abuse of process”.