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Lattibeaudiere, Warrick v Jamaica National Building Society, Catherine Brown & Joycelyn Campbell
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA
IN CIVIL DIVISION
CLAIM NO. 2005 HCV 0 1066
BETWEEN WARRICK LATTIBEAUDIERE CLAIMANT
AND JAMAICA NATIONAL
BUILDING SOCIETY 1 ST DEFENDANT
AND CATHERINE BROWN 2ND DEFENDANT
AND JOSCELYN CAMPBELL 3RD DEFENDANT
Mr. Rudolph Francis for the Claimant
Mr. Garth McBean for the Defendants
Malicious Prosecution - Charge laid by police officer - Whether complainant was
the prosecutor
November 27,28 and December 4,2008
BROOKS, J.
Mr. Warrick Lattibeaudiere was employed to the May Pen branch of
Jamaica National Building Society. In July 1998 he was charged for
conspiracy to defraud the Society. The police laid the charge in the Resident
Magistrate's Court for the parish of Clarendon and Mr. Lattibeaudiere was
summoned to attend court to answer to the charge. After several months of
trial Mr. Lattibeaudiere was acquitted of the charge.
He now accuses two officers of the Society, Mr. Joscelyn Campbell
and Miss Catherine Brown of having maliciously instituted the criminal
charge against him. The officers deny instituting the prosecution, or indeed,