An­na-Lisa Paul

Jus­tice Joan Charles has or­dered all the lawyers in­volved in the law­suits be­tween pres­i­dent of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Wat­son Duke and the union's gen­er­al coun­cil to come to a res­o­lu­tion be­fore the next ad­journed date.

Pre­sid­ing in the Port-of-Spain As­sizes on Mon­day, Charles told at­tor­neys for both sides to be guid­ed by her ear­li­er judg­ments in mat­ters in­volv­ing PSA's act­ing deputy gen­er­al sec­re­tary Joanne Sem­per-Ca­pri­et­ta and in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions of­fi­cers Yvonne De Peiza and Paula Prescott.

The three had been sus­pend­ed by Duke, but the court lat­er or­dered that they should be re­in­stat­ed and al­so paid all out­stand­ing salaries from the date of their sus­pen­sions to the date of the judge­ment, along with in­ter­est and le­gal costs.

The law­suit in­volv­ing PSA vice-pres­i­dent Rosan­na Robin­son, gen­er­al sec­re­tary Oral Saun­ders, deputy gen­er­al sec­re­tary Rendy Be­dasie and trustees Dim­itrius Har­ri­son and Ray­mond But­ler came up for hear­ing on Mon­day, when Charles ad­vised that her ear­li­er judg­ments should be con­sid­ered with a view to en­sur­ing the two sides could work out a res­o­lu­tion on or be­fore Oc­to­ber 29.