Thursday, February 28, 2008

False claim lands process server in hot water

Jamaica Gleaner - February 28, 2008

A process server who made a false declaration that he had served a wife with a divorce petition could face criminal charges.

Supreme Court Judge Carol Beswick has directed the registrar of the Supreme Court to report the matter to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) so that action can be taken against the process server.

The judge issued the directive when she set aside a decree absolute, which had ended the marriage between Winchester Simpson and Erline Simpson.

It was reported that the wife did not know that she was divorced until someone asked her how she was enjoying divorced life.

The matter was investigated and it turned out that the husband had filed a divorce petition in the Supreme Court on May 10, 2006. The decrees nisi and absolute were obtained by October 2007, ending the seven-year marriage.

Simpson applied to the Supreme Court to have the decree absolute set aside on the grounds of irregularity, and produced evidence to support her claim.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Jamaica - Serving a divorce petition

Jamaica Gleaner - Mcgregor

One reader, who has been married for four years and separated from her husband for two years, wants to get a divorce. She is a British citizen, who has been living in Jamaica for 22 years. Her husband lives in the United States, but she has no knowledge of his actual whereabouts. She has an address for her husband's sister. What can she do?

The reader is entitled to file a petition in the Jamaican court to obtain a decree nisi, although she is a British citizen. The fact that she has been residing in Jamaica for 22 years means that the Jamaican court has jurisdiction to hear her petition as she is someone who has been ordinarily resident in Jamaica for at least 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the petition was filed.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Process Server Finds Man Stabbed Inside Court Bathroom

Denver Channel 7 - Feb. 15, 2008

Police Clear Englewood Civic Center But Find No One Suspicious

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Police are searching for someone who stabbed a man in the bathroom at Englewood Civic Center and then took off.

The 64-year-old victim was taken to Swedish Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

"The victim was coherent and alert when he was found," said Englewood police Officer Brad Johnson.

The victim told detectives that while he was standing near a stall, someone reached from behind him and stabbed him in the abdomen. He didn't see who it was.

A process server walking into the bathroom found the victim bleeding and leaning against the bathroom wall. He called 911 at about 1:27 p.m...

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

KARACHI: Karsaz tribunal orders arrest of PPP leader

Pakistan Dawn - Azfar-ul-Ashfaque

KARACHI, Feb 4: An inquiry tribunal investigating the Oct 18 Karsaz blasts issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of Pakistan People’s Party leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Monday after he refused to appear before the tribunal to record his testimony.

A three-member PPP team responsible for the overall security of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto upon her homecoming on Oct 18, comprising Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, Agha Siraj Durrani and Maj-Gen (retd) Ahsan Ahmed, were summoned for Jan 28 but only Mr Ahmed appeared before the tribunal. The tribunal had repeated summons for Dr Mirza and Mr Durrani for Feb 4 and warned them of adopting a ‘coercive process’ if they failed to appear before the tribunal.

However, when the proceeding began, process server sub-inspector Muhammad Ayub Bhutta of Kario Ghawar police station, Badin district, submitted his report before the tribunal head, retired Justice Dr Ghous Mohammad, that he had served a summon on Dr Mirza but he refused to comply with it.

Special prosecutor Arshad Lodhi submitted a copy of the process server’s report containing a handwritten note by Dr Mirza. “I am receiving this summon under protest because our leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto did not recognise this tribunal as free and fair. Therefore, we have decided not to appear before such a forum. We do our utmost efforts to stop that unfair treatment to the largest party of Pakistan,” wrote Dr Mirza, who was the security chief of Ms Bhutto and is working now in the same capacity with PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

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