Fletcher returns to court in case vs JRC

Jockey Samantha Fletcher is set appear in the Supreme Court on Thursday for the first hearing of the fixed date claim form for the judicial review into her case against the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC).

The matter relates to a 20 day race day ban, which Fletcher served last year, after the JRC found her guilty of breaching Rule 200 of the racing rules by not riding the horse Gone a  Negril on its merit on February 4.

However, in June Justice Simone Wolfe-Reece ruled in favour of Fletcher following her application for permission to apply for a judicial review.

That meant that Fletcher's attorney Douglas Thompson was successful in arguing for several declarations including that the decision of enquiry made on March 7 and the JRC's March 21 decision where she was handed the 25 race day ban, were illegal, void and of no effect.