Over 1,200 remand prisoners accused of murder can now start applying for judicial officers to consider bail for them.
Delivering an oral decision on Thursday Chief Justice Ivor Archie and Appellate Judges Mira Dean-Armorer and Malcolm Holdip dismissed an application from the Office of the Attorney General to continue to stay its recent judgment on the constitutionality of Section 5(1) of the Bail Act of 1994, which precluded judicial officers from considering bail for persons accused of murder.
Despite the Appeal Court’s ruling on the suspension of the judgment, the effects of the landmark case can still possibly be put on hold as AG’s Office is expected to apply to the United Kingdom-based Privy Council for a similar stay pending the determination of its final appeal.
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