Law Offices of J. Buchanan-McLean

19/11/2021

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Consumer Protection Tribunal has ruled in favour of a consumer who sought...

14/06/2020

The 20-year legal battle between Paymaster Jamaica Limited and Paul Lowe over breach of copyright ended on Thursday with the Supreme Court ordering the company to pay the computer programmer and software developer $282 million in damages. Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20200614/big-award-computer-programmer-against-paymaster

01/01/2019

13/07/2018

A US jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the powder caused their ovarian cancer. The largest verdict to date and the first to successfully argue talcum powder contains asbestos.

23/11/2017

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20171123/costly-malice-court-awards-12m-man-dishonourably-discharged-jdf-over

The Government will now have to pay a St Mary man more than $12 million in damages after the nation's second-highest court affirmed a finding by a judge of the Supreme Court that a criminal conviction, which was recorded against his name, was...

19/10/2017

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/new-name-for-petty-sessions-courts_113691?profile=1373

Petty Sessions Courts are to be renamed Lay Magistrates' Courts under a...

10/05/2017

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20170508/court-orders-transport-authority-pay-taxi-owner-73-million-damages

The Transport Authority has been ordered to pay the owner of a route taxi $7.3 million in damages plus legal costs. Supreme Court Judge Courtney Daye made the award to St Catherine businesswoman Trecia Miller who had sued the Transport Authority in...

03/04/2017

http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/news/IDT-awards-compensation-to--severely-negligent--warehouse-manager_94236

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31/03/2017

http://nationwideradiojm.com/six-claimants-move-to-have-jutc-declared-bankrupt/

The Supreme Court is being asked to declare the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, bankrupt and to liquidate its assets.

10/02/2017

http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/business/Buying-a-home-without-a-lawyer-can-be-painful_13215564

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10/02/2017

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