WHOLESALE COVER UP OF CORRUPT ABUSE OF JUDICIAL PRACTICES IN JAMAICA BY THE JUDICIAL SERVICES COMMISSION
Silvera Adjudah
Educator, Public Health Specialist, Social Scientist, Medical Technologist. Freelance Lecturer and Small Bus. Operator
USED TO DESTROY THE LIFE OF A LITTLE INNOCENT CHILD.
The Judicial Services Commission is the highest body in Jamaica’s justice systems which is responsible for; appointing judicial officers, remove them or carry out disciplinary action against them for professional misconduct. However, for decades now no one has ever heard of any disciplinary action taken against any Judicial Officers which makes it a highly compromised body.
One year ago I filed a complaint with the Judicial Services Commission against the Chief Justice of Jamaica for failing to address complaints of unprofessional conducts of Judicial Officers and Court staff. That was followed by three (3) other complaints a few months later, against Judicial Officers for their gross unprofessional conduct, against me in the court of law. That is in cases for me as a self-represented father in matters about my little five (5) year old daughter to defend her rights against the destruction that she is undergoing because of the highly corrupt justice system in Jamaica. That is for denying her, her right to see her father for six (6) consecutive years now for no reason at all, while giving her mother the right to imprison the child from seeing her father. A mother that was reported two (2) times to the Child development agency for ill-treating the child. Such decision was carried out by syndicate of allegedly corrupt minded Judicial Officers involving a Judges from highest Court, the Court of Appeal, including the President Dennis Morrison, just to give favor to their private Lawyer colleague Wilwood Adams on the other side and to destroy the child.
Surprisingly disappointed, after waiting one (1) long year I heard nothing from the Judicial Services Commission. Upon enquiry from the Secretary, I was recently advised in letter dated 19th May 2017 by the same Secretary that none of the Complaints were heard by the Judicial Services Commission. The grand illiterate and corrupt excuse/ reason given to me in the letter is that all of the complaints falls under the purview of the Court of Appeal. That is total nonsense and a BLATANT ACT OF COVER UP of CORRUPTION! And with no little decency to advise me earlier on any of the complaints, only after waiting one year and only from my own enquiry, revealed the corruption.
The Court of Appeal does not address unprofessional and corrupt misconducts. As such cannot carry out disciplinary action on anyone for such conduct. The Court of Appeal function is to address Error in judgment. Notwithstanding that I did not asked the Judicial Services Commission to over-turn any judgment. I simply identified the unprofessional and corrupt behaviors displayed by the Judicial officers that I experienced, and asked for those to be addressed. That is the duty of the Judicial Services Commission and not the Court of Appeal. This has nothing to do with the independence of the judiciary as it has the right to investigate and address unprofessional conducts of Judicial Officers inside or outside of court.
Three (3) of the complaints involved the Chief Justice, Zaila McCalla of Jamaica, to whom I had previously reported all of the unprofessional conducts to in thirty three (33) complaints from 2012 to 2016 and none of them were addressed in any ways to resolve the issues. All of which took place in the Mandeville Resident Magistrate Court where I represented myself as a Self-Represented Father for my little daughter. From all of the 33 complaints only two formal investigations were carried by the Chief Justice, in complaints against Magistrate Oswald Burchension and Magistrate Desiree Alleyne. I complied fully with the investigations and had high expectations of hearing the outcome. That was from 2012 to 2013. But to date I have neither seen nor heard of any outcome to the investigations. The moral of the that story is that the Chief Justice having seen that she could not prove me wrong any of the complaints choose to bury the investigations there. As a poor self- represented party I could not be given my right over two (2) Judicial Officers guilty of gross unprofessional conducts. For all subsequent complaints no investigations were conducted into them while I continued to suffer from breaches of my rights, prejudice, abuses, victimization and corrupt behaviors from judicial officers and Court staff.
The Chief Justice knows very well that even though the Constitution of Jamaica gives her the right to Chair the Judicial Services Commission, she could not preside over any of my complaints before the Commission. That is because she is a part of the complaints, and that would be in clear breach of my Constitutional Rights and the laws of Natural Justice, as I am entitled to an independent hearing of my complaints. The Chief Justice being the Chairman of the Commission would undoubtedly be aware of the complaints and must recuse/ remove herself, from Chairman of the Commission while those complaints are being dealt with. That obviously did not happen, and instead all of the complaints were dumped, covered up and denied an investigation and hearing into by the Commission. That is clearly a corrupt abuse of power!
One of the complaints is about Judges at the Court of Appeal. An Application I brought to the Court for the denial of my litte five (5) year old daughter from seeing her father for five (5) consecutive years. In that hearing the most gross unprofessional and alleged corrupt behavior was experienced by the panel of three (3) Judges; Mr. F. Williams, Miss Edwards and led by the President of the Court of Appeal, Judge Dennis Morrison himself. The gross unprofessional behavior of President Dennis Morrison was unbelievable! To highlight some;
1. Dennis Morrison allowed the Respondent Lawyer, Wilwood Adams to carry out corrupt behavior before the Court and do nothing about it. Such as; clear Spoliation of evidence, submitted a fraudulent Affidavit of Service to the Court for something he did not do, and refused to serve the Affidavit on me before the Court date as was requested for him to do.
2. Dennis Morrison instructed the Lawyer to serve the document on me in Court and instructed me to take a few minutes to read the document, instead of the 21 days right I am entitled under the law.
3. Dennis Morrison covered up the corruption when he denied me the right to raise objection on the service of the document and to speak on the fraudulence of the document itself.
4. Dennis Morrison and the other two Judges hurriedly dismissed the case without giving any clue as to the reason for dismissing the case, but said reason would be given at a later date.
5. To date I have not been given any reason(s) for the dismissal of the case from June 21, 2016, one year ago.
On November 15, 2016 I was called by telephone, by the Ms. Althea Edwards at the Appeal Court and told to come to Court on November 18, 2016, (two days notice) to get the reasons for the dismissal of the case. One day later November 16, 2016 I received another telephone call from the same Ms. Edwards advising me that the date had changed to Monday November 21, 2016 (2 days notice) as the Judges said that is when the reasons would be ready. That is the disrespectful manner in which me, the Applicant was treated by the team of judges headed by President Dennis Morrison by giving me only few days notice by phone. I was unable to make it to Court on that date because I had other important things already scheduled to do. A few weeks later on December 8, 2016 I went to the Registrar of the Court of Appeal and asked for a copy of the document with the reasons for the dismissal of the case, which I presumed was issued to the Court on November 21, in my absence and that which I am still entitled to as the Applicant in the case. I was told I would be called in a couple days later to pick it up.
Up to January 2017 I heard nothing from the Court of Appeal about the document. On January 25, 2017 I requested the reasons again through a formal request, hand delivered and obtained a stamped copy for myself. Having waited up to February 6, 2017 and nothing from the Court of Appeal, I made an additional formal report/ complaint to the Judicial Services Commission and supplied a copy of stamped request to Court of Appeal. To date I have not got anything from the Court of Appeal. I expected to have gotten the reasons for the dismissal accompanied by a copy of the Court Transcript to justify the reasons, but NOTHING! There is no justification for the dismissal of the case because the factors used by the alleged corrupted Magistrate Dale Staples to rule against me were barbaric, uncivilized and corrupt. That is by embarking on procedural case laws that are redundant and whose use are outdated for decades now. Such procedures are not in use nowhere in the civilized world, while he condemned the standard procedures given to me by the Courts Office. Not only that, but his judgment document also consisted of lies and contradictions.
All of which were made known to the Court of Appeal judges led by President Dennis Morrison. Magistrate Dale Staple behavior to rule against me from seeing my daughter was undoubtedly malicious, vindictive and corrupt abuse of power. That is because I had filed about four (4) unprofessional complaints against him during his handling of the case prior to hearing and requested his removal but he refused to recuse himself with no little shame and decided to shame himself further at the Court of Appeal. Such behavior the Court of Appeal decided to corruptly cover up by way of giving no reason to justify the dismissal of the case and further denied me the right to see my little six (6) year old daughter for six (6) consecutive years now. A clear breach of my Constitutional Right and the laws of Natural Justice to deny me the reason(s) for the dismissal of a case to which I am the Applicant.
One of the complaints is about former Magistrate Cresencia Brown who conducted a hearing against me on a Mention date against my will and in a state of unpreparedness. Then later denied me the right to recall the other party to the stand when I had all my evidence in hand on the conclusion date. Then she later handed down judgment and falsified the date of hearing on the Court Order Judgment document given to me. That is to cover up the corrupt breaches on my constitutional rights. Unfortunately I did not have the $150,000.00 charged my Lawyers to take it to the Court of Appeal and I did not learn the procedures in time. All of that corrupt unlawful behavior of her was reported to Chief Justice McCalla who did nothing about it. Instead, after my complaints the same Magistrate Cresencia Brown was promoted to a High Court Judge in the Supreme Court, as she is now, obviously recommended by Chief Justice McCalla.
Another of the complaints is about Magistrate Lorian Cole Montaque who threw out a second Court Application in the Mandeville RM Court with 18 counts of breaches of a visitation order filed by me the Applicant. The corrupt reason given was, improper procedure used, while applying redundant outdated case law procedures that are no longer in used for decades now, like Dale Staple did. Again this was done in condemnation of the standard procedure in use, as was given to me by the Clerk of Court, in Courts Office. This was in clear corruption to cover up for further illegal activities of the Respondent and her Lawyer Wilwood Adams to pervert the course of justice as was involved in the Court Application.
Other highlights in the complaint against Chief Justice McCalla are;
1. A first Court Application for breaches of visitation order filed by me the Applicant was fraudulently removed from Trial List upon me showing up for hearing having travelled 100 kms from Kingston to Mandeville for hearing. Upon my investigation after adjournment of court I was shown where someone fraudulently wrote on the Application that I withdrew the Application. I certainly did not withdraw the Application. No investigation was instructed by Chief Justice McCalla to investigate and charged the Culprit.
2. A third Application for sixteen (16) counts of breaches of visitation order filed by me the Applicant also. After mentioned a couple times in court it has corruptly gone missing from the Courts Office file to prevent the matter from being heard. No investigation instructed by Chief justice McCalla and the head of the Court Management Division, Ms. Carol Hughes.
3. An Illegal court transaction took place in Mandeville RM Court to give full custody of the child to her Mother Chereitha Lalor carried out by her Representative Lawyer Wilwood Adams, which I knew nothing about. That denied me access to the child at her school and denied her from seeing her father under an official Visitation Order given to me by the Court, even when accompanied and witnessed by Police Officers to pick up the child and Police Report made in the matter. Chief Justice McCalla failed to order official investigation into the matter to date, from 2015.
4. I have being denied access to the Court file since the discovery and report of the illegal Court Transaction as in #3, by the Court Adminstrator Nigel Grey and the head of Court Management Services Carol Hughes. Chief Justice McCalla refused to act.
Chief Justice McCalla cover up all of the above.
The Court of Appeal handling of the Appeal case was nothing but a corrupt style of Judicial practice by dismissing the case without knowing or giving any reason why they dismissed the case, other than to give favor to their colleague Lawyer Wilwood Adams on the other side. That type of judicial practice is really barbaric and does not happen anywhere in the civilized world. How can you dismissed a case and do not know the reason why you dismissed it? You should at least state or list the reasons followed by explanation later, or adjourned the case to a later date for decision, while you take time to study the hearing transcipt and come up with logical reasons for a decision. The corrupt decision to dismissed the case further imprisoned the child from seeing her father for six (6) consecutive years now and continuing. Which part of Justice is that President, Dennis Morrison??? That is clearly a corrupt form of justice which is immoral and inhumane, to imprison and torture a little innocent child for six (6) consecutive years of her life and going.
It is no secret that a lot of the persons who took up Judicial Officers job in Jamaica are Lawyers who cannot make money from private practice and do so just to get a pay check at the end of the month and the benefits of such position. While on the bench as Judicial Officer it is a business for them to give favors to their other Lawyer Colleagues to keep them in business also, especially by trampling the rights of poor self-represented parties in court to sell cases to their Lawyer Colleagues on the other side. The life of a little innocent child is of no concern or sold also. The Authorities such as the Office of the Chief Justice, the Court Management Division and the Judicial Services Commission promote such wholesale corruption by covering up for all their colleagues that are involved in this corrupt way of life.
Educator, Public Health Specialist, Social Scientist, Medical Technologist. Freelance Lecturer and Small Bus. Operator
4 年Thanks for your support Carvel.
Wow. I feel your pain. This is the zenith of corruption