{"id":2248,"date":"2010-09-20T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T13:10:02","slug":"throw-the-bum-case-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/throw-the-bum-case-out","title":{"rendered":"Throw The Bum (Case) Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) is seeking to have the judicial review, which would determine if Cheryl Grant-Bethell was overlooked for the post of the director of public prosecutions (DPP), thrown out of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Grant-Bethell filed the application at the Supreme Court registry in  June calling for a review of the JLSC&#8217;s decision to pass over her and  select Jamaican Vinette Graham-Allen as DPP in the Office of the  Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>During a preliminary hearing yesterday in the Supreme Court attorney  Thomas Evans, QC, told Senior Justice Jon Isaacs that he intends to file  an application that Grant-Bethell did not properly apply for the  judicial review in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is no originating document for the action.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after the brief hearing, he explained why Grant-Bethell&#8217;s application for the review should be tossed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rules of the Supreme Court say how you go about doing these things,&#8221;he said referring to the application process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) is seeking to have the judicial review, which would determine if Cheryl Grant-Bethell was overlooked for the post of the director of public prosecutions (DPP), thrown out of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,32,40,49],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-courts","tag-government","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}