Jeremy Enriquez Wins Legal Costs in JLSC Case

Government activist Jeremy Enriquez has secured another legal victory in the courts, this time against both the Attorney General and the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, following a judicial review connected to a complaint of alleged judicial misconduct against High Court Justice Tawanda Hondora. In a ruling delivered yesterday, May 26, Justice Martha Alexander ordered both the Attorney General and the JLSC to pay Enriquez’s legal costs after finding that the commission failed to properly respond to his complaint and unreasonably delayed acting on the matter.  The matter stems from a complaint Enriquez filed on April 26, 2025, in which he accused Justice Hondora of judicial bias and misconduct. According to the complaint, Justice Hondora allegedly failed to mute his microphone during a lunch break and was overheard discussing Enriquez’s case with another judge while making prejudicial comments about Enriquez and his Trinidad-based attorney, Senior Counsel Anand Ramlogan.  Enriquez argued that despite repeatedly writing to the Judicial and Legal Services Commission seeking updates on the complaint, he was only told the matter was “receiving attention” and no substantive response was provided for several months. He eventually filed for judicial review in November of last year.  In her ruling, Justice Alexander sharply criticized the conduct of the commission, stating that the JLSC’s response left Enriquez “in a state of limbo” and breached the spirit of the pre-action protocol required under the law.  The court also rejected an application by the Attorney General seeking to have Enriquez pay the government’s legal costs. Instead, the judge found that Enriquez acted reasonably in bringing the matter before the court and said the litigation could have been avoided had the commission responded appropriately.  Enriquez, who recently secured two victories before the Caribbean Court of Justice in relation to his constitutional redistricting claim, says he intends to continue challenging what he describes as failures within the justice system. He has also filed another judicial review challenging the JLSC’s decision to dismiss his complaint against Justice Hondora.