The Judiciary is puzzled by attorney Mark Seepersad’s comment that he was not interviewed during the police investigation into the discovery of High Court documents at his chambers in 2010.
“The Judiciary notes recent comments in the media which assert that Mr. Mark Seepersad, Attorney-at-Law, alleges that he was never interviewed in relation to a matter involving court files found in the office of an attorney at law.
“The Judiciary is puzzled by these reports as it can confirm that it is in possession of a Trinidad & Tobago Police Service report dated 10th February, 2011 which states that Mr. Seepersad was indeed interviewed and which gives details of his responses,” the Judiciary said in a statement.
Contacted on the matter yesterday, Seepersad said he would rather not comment on the release at this time, except to say that he will be writing the administrative secretary of Chief Justice Ivor Archie on it.
“I have seen the press release. I have spoken to the administrative secretary of the Chief Justice and I am in the process of writing to the administrative secretary of the Chief Justice,” he said.
The Judiciary had sent out a release last Friday stating that a police investigation into the discovery of court documents at the Port-of-Spain office of an attorney almost five years ago unearthed no criminal wrongdoing.
The investigation was launched after Seepersad found documents which he believed belonged to the High Court in his office in 2010.
Seepersad said the documents were among several items left behind by attorney Gerald Ramdeen when he (Ramdeen) vacated the office in October 11, 2010. The two had shared a practice before parting ways.
In a letter dated November 15, 2010, to then Registrar of the Supreme Court Evelyn-Ann Petersen, Seepersad said the High Court documents included a hardcover notebook belonging to Justice Lennox Deyalsingh and several personal documents belonging to or referencing Asha Harripaul.
Harripaul was then a judicial support officer at the Supreme Court.
In an interview with T&T Guardian last Friday, Seepersad said he was taken aback by the initial Judiciary statement since he was never interviewed by the police during their investigation.