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Lewis, Raphael v Attorney General
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JLJDICATURE OF JAMAICA
CLAIM NO. HCV 0063 712004
BETWEEN RAPHAEL LEWIS CLAIMANT
AND ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR JAMAICA DEFENDANT
Nelton Forsythe and Latoya Green instructed by Forsythe & Forsythe for Claimant.
Nicole Lambert and Kevin Powell instructed by Director of State Proceedings for Defendant.
C; Heard 27&, 28& Se~tember2 006 and 7& Se~tember2 007
(1) Historians claim that Christopher Columbus to better illustrate his description of the
topography of Jamaica to his royal patrons, Ferninand and Isabellaof Spain, crumpled a sheet of
paper in his hand and presented it to them. It was an apt description. Jamaica is a mountainous
country, although the majority of its people live on the narrow coastal strip that skirts the island,
a substantial number resides, as the Claimant does, on its hilly hinterland.
(2) The majestic Blue Mountains rise to 7, 402 feet in the north-eastern section of the island,
and plunges within twenty miles to the southern shoreline. On that shoreline is situated the C district of Bull Bay, which is connected by roadway that runs northerly to the university district
of Papine. This road straddles the lower ridges of the Blue Mountain. It is along this roadway
that the Claimant Mr. Raphael Lewis' house is situated.
(3) Travelling northerly along this road to the lefl there is a hillside embankment, which rises
steeply fiom the roadway, and runs for most of its length fiom Bull Bay to beyond the
Claimant's house. On the right side of the roadway, the land descends to a river, which runs