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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : PNP attorneys disappointed with Manatt / Dudus Enquiry rulings ( RJR )...</span>
The attorneys representing the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) at the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry taking place at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston have expressed disappointment with some of the rulings made in recent sittings, by Commission Chairman, Queens Counsel (Q.C.) Emil George.During Monday morning's sitting of the Enquiry, the Commissioners ruled that statements made by former Commissioner of Police Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin during media interviews last year at the height of the drama surrounding the extradition request for then fugitive Christopher "Dudus" Coke will not be entered into evidence at the Enquiry.At the end of Monday's sitting, K.D. Knight, senior attorney who is representing the PNP at the Enquiry, told reporters at the first of a series of media briefings organized by the party that members of the public may not be well served or satisfied with the handling of relevant issues which have been affected by the Commission's rulings."It was over view that the public would have been well served to have heard the statement but it was overruled and we must abide by the ruling. We don't want to use and pejorative language in describing the ruling ... we simply want to say that having regard to how the Commissioners viewed the evidence and the law, we are a bit disappointed," Mr. Knight said.Public unease A.J. Nicholson, another attorney for the PNP, pointed out that the insistence of Harold Brady, the man at the centre of the Manatt Affair, not to testify at the Enquiry will cause unease in the public domain once the Commissioners make their final report."The public will have to try to walk this balancing line between what the Commissioners have found because that would be based upon what was said in the Enquiry itself and what has been said in the public domain before and perhaps even during, you are not going to be able, one way or the other, to wipe out of the minds of members of the public what has gone one," Mr. Nicholson said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : PNP attorneys disappointed with Manatt / Dudus Enquiry rulings ( RJR )...</span>
The attorneys representing the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) at the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry taking place at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston have expressed disappointment with some of the rulings made in recent sittings, by Commission Chairman, Queens Counsel (Q.C.) Emil George.During Monday morning's sitting of the Enquiry, the Commissioners ruled that statements made by former Commissioner of Police Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin during media interviews last year at the height of the drama surrounding the extradition request for then fugitive Christopher "Dudus" Coke will not be entered into evidence at the Enquiry.At the end of Monday's sitting, K.D. Knight, senior attorney who is representing the PNP at the Enquiry, told reporters at the first of a series of media briefings organized by the party that members of the public may not be well served or satisfied with the handling of relevant issues which have been affected by the Commission's rulings."It was over view that the public would have been well served to have heard the statement but it was overruled and we must abide by the ruling. We don't want to use and pejorative language in describing the ruling ... we simply want to say that having regard to how the Commissioners viewed the evidence and the law, we are a bit disappointed," Mr. Knight said.Public unease A.J. Nicholson, another attorney for the PNP, pointed out that the insistence of Harold Brady, the man at the centre of the Manatt Affair, not to testify at the Enquiry will cause unease in the public domain once the Commissioners make their final report."The public will have to try to walk this balancing line between what the Commissioners have found because that would be based upon what was said in the Enquiry itself and what has been said in the public domain before and perhaps even during, you are not going to be able, one way or the other, to wipe out of the minds of members of the public what has gone one," Mr. Nicholson said.