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Alleged gang leader Rajaee Ali has evaded a preliminary challenge to his lawsuit over being transferred from the Maximum Security Prison (MSP) in Arouca to military facilities in Chaguaramas under the ongoing State of Emergency (SoE).
When Ali’s case came up for hearing on Wednesday, lawyers for the Office of the Attorney General requested that Justice Marissa Robertson consider whether he should be granted leave to pursue the case before analysing the substantive issues raised by his legal team, led by Keron Ramkhalwhan, of Juris X Chambers.
They claimed that Ali had not raised a valid case with a realistic prospect of success at an eventual trial, as he was currently being detained under Emergency Powers Regulations for the SoE and not a remand warrant under which he was first transferred.
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