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A hearing into the legality of a Commission of Inquiry into allegations of land grabs will be held in the summer. The hearing was ordered after Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, and Myron Piper, asked for a judicial review of the commission i...

A Commission of Inquiry into allegations of land grabs will undergo a judicial review to see if it acted inside the law, it was revealed yesterday. Khalid Wasi, also known as Raymond Davis, and Myron Piper were successful in their argument before Ass...

A review of court cases presided over by the Chief Justice that involved island banks should be carried out, a pressure group has said. The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claimed the move was needed after it was revealed in January that Narinder Hargun...

A judicial review into the Commission of Inquiry into Historical Loss of Land is set to go ahead after the Governor agreed to bring in an overseas judge to hear the matter. The call for a review of the commission’s conduct was first made in January, ...

Rena Lalgie, the Governor, is taking legal advice before deciding whether an independent judge from overseas should be called in to preside over a judicial review. The application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of the Commission of Inquiry...

Two litigants battling to get a case about the recent Commission of Inquiry heard in the Supreme Court claim the judiciary is in “crisis” because of the lack of an impartial judge to preside over it. Raymond Davis and Myron Piper wrote an open letter...

An American who claims an island off Southampton may have been misappropriated from her family a century ago is calling on others with evidence of “land grabs” to join forces for a class-action lawsuit. Helen Muise said affected families should consi...

A woman who spearheaded her family’s near 50-year battle for justice over a land theft said she that hoped the struggle would be over before she died. Barbara Brown, 90, the mother of the late MP Walton Brown, who paved the way for a Commission of In...

Two major property deals carried out more than 50 years ago were fraudulent, a hearing into allegations of land grabs ruled. A report from the Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses said that several men were part of a “criminal conspiracy” ...

An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted. Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...

A heritage trust for the families of people dispossessed of property in Tucker’s Town and St David’s could be funded by the creation a new economic empowerment zone, commissioners suggested. The scheme’s recommended aims would include the “historical...

A 500-page report by a Commission of Inquiry into Historic Land Losses signalled “the last mile” of a decades-long race, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt highlighted that the document would be difficult for some people to read and was among...