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Hanna, Errol v University Of The West Indies
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA
IN CONIMON LAW
CLAIM NO. C.L. 2000lH- 104
BETWEEN ERROL HANNA CLAIMANT
A N D UNIVERSITY OF THE DEFENDANT
WEST INDIES
Mr. Walter Scott and Mrs. Sharon Usim instructed by Messrs. Chancellor
and Company for Claimant.
Mr. Christopher Kelman and Miss Maliaca Wong instructed by Myers,
Fletcher and Gordon for Defendant
Heard: September 29, 3oth, October 10,2003 & October 19,2004
Daye, J.
On the morning of the lgth November, 1999 at around 10:30 a.m.
Mr. Errol Hanna a building contractor, and Managing Director of
Cosmopolitan Limited, a construction company, was shot in the back of the
neck at point blank range on premises occupied by the University of the
West Indies at the Mona Campus, Jamaica. Mr. Hanna was shot by an
unknown gunman who, along with other persons, invaded the construction
site of which he had taken possession on September 20, 1999.
Miraculously, Mr. Hanna's life was spared. He spent one night in
hospital. He returned to work at the same construction site on the