Sascha Wil­son

A San Fer­nan­do mag­is­trate yes­ter­day in­struct­ed po­lice of­fi­cers not to al­low im­prop­er­ly dressed per­sons to en­ter her court­room.Mag­is­trate Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds, who presided in the Sec­ond Court, said peo­ple must ad­here to the dress code.Speak­ing to Court and Process of­fi­cers she in­quired about a dress code no­tice which used to be post­ed on the build­ing.She said peo­ple wear­ing cloth­ing, such as thin straps and strap­less, hats, jer­seys with mar­i­jua­na leaves and "dirty" words and var­i­ous head­gear, should not be al­lowed in the court. Court pros­e­cu­tor Ram­dath Phillip said se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel said they could not pre­vent peo­ple from en­ter­ing the build­ing.Ram­sumair-Hinds said she had raised the is­sue with Chief Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar and she was con­cerned about it. How­ev­er, while that is be­ing sort­ed out, Ram­sumair-Hinds, who usu­al­ly pre­sides in the Sixth Court, made it clear to the of­fi­cers peo­ple im­prop­er­ly at­tired must not be al­lowed to en­ter her court­room.