Administrative Law - Constitutional Relief - Judicial Review - Application for Certiorari - Assault and Battery - False Imprisonment - Resident Magistrate’s Court Procedure - Committal for Non-payment - Liability of a Resident Magistrate - Jurisdiction of the Resident Magistrate - Natural Justice - Costs - Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendment) Act - Maintenance Act - Judicature (Resident Magistrates) Act - Justices of the Peace Jurisdiction Act - Bail Act

Criminal Charge - Contemporaneous General Legal Council complaint - Stay of proceedings

Costs - Leave to apply for judicial review – Indemnity basis – Multiple parties with same interest – Two counsel for one party.

Declarations - Constitutional Redress – Sections 13(3) (g) & (h) of Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms – Right to equality before the law – Right to equitable and humane treatment by any public authority – Sections 21 & 22 of the Constabulary Force Act – Section 58 of the Road Traffic Act – The Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region Act - Alternative/adequate means of redress available – Permanent injunction.

Security for costs – Two claimants – One claimant incorporated in the U.S.A.

Negligence - Factories Act – Injury to Finger

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA
IN COMMON LAW
SUIT NO. CL. E043195
C BETWEEN HOPETON ELSON PLAINTIFF
AND ATTORNEY GENERAL DEFENDANT
D. Daley Q. C. instructed by Daley, Thwaites, Campbell for the plaintiff.
N. Hamaty instructed by Director of State Proceedings for the defendant.
HEARD: 7TH & gTHA ND 17THM AY, 2001
BESWICK, J. (Age)
C :
The plaintiff contends that on July 8, 1994, at a fair being held at Gordon
Hill School, a man was wielding a knife amidst the crowd that was attending. A