By Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterFAILURE YESTERDAY by the parties involved in the dispute over the election of officers last year to the Inspectors Branch Board of the Jamaica Police Federation to arrive at an out of court settlement, has resulted in the motion being set for hearing today in the Judicial Review Court.
The lawyers representing the parties had worked out guidelines to be followed for the next election scheduled for March 31 this year but the parties did not approve them.
The motion has been set for hearing before Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe, but a member of the party disclosed yesterday that another attempt would be made to see if the issue can be settled before the hearing starts today.
Inspector Max Marshalleck and several other inspectors are seeking orders to have the election set aside on the ground that they were not given the opportunity to participate in the election.
Last year October Miss Justice Ingrid Mangatal gave Inspector Marshalleck and his co-claimants leave to take the issue to the Judicial Review Court.
SERIOUS ISSUES
The judge said in her view there were serious issues to be tried, and ordered that there should be an expedited hearing of the matter, adding that the group is to be represented by Inspector Marshalleck.
However, Marshalleck and his co-claimants were not successful in their application for an injunction barring the members of the Branch Board from taking any further part in the conduct and operations of the Branch Board until the issue was decided by the court.
Inspector Marshalleck and several other inspectors, who are being represented by attorneys-at-law David Batts and Seymour Stewart, are contending that they were not given an opportunity to nominate officers and participate in last year's election to the Branch Board.
Inspector K. Wade, who was the returning
officer for the election, is named as a respondent and is being represented by Acting
Deputy Solicitor General Patrick Foster and
attorney-at-law Kathryn Denbow.
