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The PNP Member of Parliament for West Hanover in Jamaica, Ian Hayles, has filed a motion in the Court of Appeal seeking leave to take his dual citizenship case to the UK based Privy Council.
Last month the MP lost his bid to have the Court of Appeal reject a dual citizenship claim against him.
His application for leave to the Privy Council is set for hearing on July 19.
Hayles had appealed a December 2009 Supreme Court decision for the election petition against him to proceed.
During the June 17 hearing in the Court of Appeal, the panel of three judges unanimously rejected the appeal.
The judges ruled that by his action, Hayles breached section 40, subsection two, of the Constitution.
That section states that a person is not qualified to sit as a Member of Parliament if he’s by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgment of allegiance to a foreign power or state.
At that time, the judges ruled that the JLP’s candidate, Donovan Hamilton, could proceed with his case against Hayles.
Hamilton is alleging that Hayles had dual citizenship when he ran for the seat in the September 2007 general election.
Hayles has refuted the allegation, saying he renounced his US citizenship before he was nominated.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20851
Last month the MP lost his bid to have the Court of Appeal reject a dual citizenship claim against him.
His application for leave to the Privy Council is set for hearing on July 19.
Hayles had appealed a December 2009 Supreme Court decision for the election petition against him to proceed.
During the June 17 hearing in the Court of Appeal, the panel of three judges unanimously rejected the appeal.
The judges ruled that by his action, Hayles breached section 40, subsection two, of the Constitution.
That section states that a person is not qualified to sit as a Member of Parliament if he’s by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgment of allegiance to a foreign power or state.
At that time, the judges ruled that the JLP’s candidate, Donovan Hamilton, could proceed with his case against Hayles.
Hamilton is alleging that Hayles had dual citizenship when he ran for the seat in the September 2007 general election.
Hayles has refuted the allegation, saying he renounced his US citizenship before he was nominated.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=20851
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