THE APPEALS COURT has cleared the way for a retired senior cop to sue the state over its apparent failure to “favourably consider” him for appointment to the post in which he had acted periodically for almost a decade.
More than a year after he retired, the court granted leave to the Police Service Commission (PSC) to withdraw its application to challenge a High Court ruling that then Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Seymour Cumberbatch could sue the Government.
Up to yesterday, however, it was not clear whether the retired police administrator would actually proceed with a case.
The ruling by the panel, comprising Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson and Justices of Appeal Sandra Mason and Andrew Burgess, was the latest development in a case that started more than three years ago when Cumberbatch sought and obtained an injunction halting an attempt by the commission to appoint a deputy police chief with a “flawed” interview process. (TS)
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