JLP’s lawyer gets injunction to halt magisterial recount in St James Southern constituency
CAMBRIDGE, St James – Presiding Resident Magistrate in the magisterial recount of the St James Southern constituency Ann-Marie Lawrence Granger was this afternoon served with a copy of a Supreme Court document to halt the proceeding in St James.
As a result, Hugh Wildman, the attorney representing the Jamaica Labour Party’s, Homer Davis said Saturday’s proceeding in the Cambridge Resident Magistrate Court is expected to stop until the matter is heard in the Supreme Court on Saturday (tomorrow) at 11:00 am.
The move is as a result of an alleged controversial move yesterday by the Resident Magistrate to accept ballots without the date of the election and the presiding officer’s initials.
At end of counting this afternoon, Davis had tallied 5,105 votes and the Derrick Kellier of the People’s National Party 4,880 votes. So far 87 of the 106 boxes have been counted.
Anthony Lewis
