Documents sparked clash in Jackson Way

THE Planning Tribunal has heard that the two beneficial owners of a company under investigation for alleged planning corruption were “at loggerheads” in recent weeks over their level of co-operation with the inquiry.

However, solicitor John Caldwell told the Tribunal yesterday that he eventually persuaded the Isle of Man-based businessman, Jim Kennedy to agree to release documents sought by the inquiry's legal team for the past four years.

Both Mr Caldwell and Mr Kennedy are the ultimate beneficial owners of Jackson Way Properties - an English company which is alleged to have paid large sums of money to the political lobbyist, Mr Frank Dunlop, to bribe councillors during the 1990s.