JENSEN LA VENDE

Deputy Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen is ex­pect­ed to rule in De­cem­ber on whether the par­al­lel pros­e­cu­tion by the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Au­thor­i­ty (OSH Au­thor­i­ty) in­to the deaths of four divers at Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny’s Pointe-a-Pierre fa­cil­i­ty in 2022 will con­tin­ue, fol­low­ing a Privy Coun­cil rul­ing last month.

On Sep­tem­ber 16, in a land­mark judg­ment, five Law Lords de­ter­mined that pros­e­cu­tions un­der the OSH Act must be filed with­in six months of an al­leged breach com­ing to the au­thor­i­ty’s at­ten­tion.