The Cuban light bulb trial is set to be further delayed as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn continues to fight an order for her to testify as a witness in the matter.
Supreme Court judge Donald McIntosh this morning granted leave for the DPP to go to the Judicial Review Court to challenge the order for her to testify.
Justice McIntosh also granted a stay of the Cuban light bulb trial pending the outcome of the review hearing.
A date for the hearing is yet to be set.
Last month, Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey granted an application by the defence for the DPP to be called as a witness in the light bulb matter.
Senior RM Pusey also ordered that Llewellyn stays out of the courtroom while prosecution witness, Rodney Chin, gives his evidence.
Chin is the main prosecution witness in the corruption and money laundering trial of former junior energy minister, Kern Spencer, and his co-accused, Colleen Wright.
However, Llewellyn has consistently challenged Pusey’s ruling on the grounds that the issuing of the subpoena for her to be called as a witness is an abuse of the process of the court.
The DPP is seeking an order to quash Pusey’s ruling for her to be absent from the courtroom while Chin is testifying.
Llewellyn also wants an order to quash the magistrate’s decision not to set aside the subpoena calling her as a witness.
