Emptage v the Attorney General of Guyana

• Jurisdiction: Caribbean States
• Judge: De La Bastide, P.
• Judgment Date: 11 March 2008
• Court: Caribbean Court of Justice
• Docket Number: CCJ Appeal No CV 7 of 2007; GY Civil Appeal No. 100 of 2004
• Date: 11 March 2008

Caribbean Court of Justice

De La Bastide, P.; Saunders, J.A.; Bernard, J.A.

CCJ Appeal No CV 7 of 2007; GY Civil Appeal No. 100 of 2004

Emptage

and

The Attorney General of Guyana

Appearances

Mr. Benjamin E Gibson and Ms Mandisa A. Breedy for the appellant

Mr. Doodnauth Singh SC, Attorney General of Guyana for the respondent

Civil practice and procedure - Costs — Security for costs — Appellant failed to comply with Order of Court of Appeal — Consequently appellant's application for extension of time to provide security for costs dismissed.

De La Bastide, P.

1 The relevant facts and documents in this case are respectively in all material respects the same as, and mutatis mutandis identical with, those in Hendy v. Commissioner of Police and the Attorney General of Guyana CV 6 of 2007. It follows therefore that for the reasons given in the judgment of even date delivered by this court in Hendy, we make in this case similar orders to those made in that case. They are as follows:

• (1) The intended appellant's application for an extension of time for providing security for costs or alternatively, leave to appeal as a poor person, is dismissed

• (2) The order of the Court of Appeal that this appeal stand dismissed is confirmed, and

• (3) We make no order as to costs.

Mr. Justice Michael de la Bastide (President)

Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders

Madam Justice Desiree Bernard