Government has signalled its intention to appeal recent decisions in which accused men were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation after the courts found their constitutional rights were infringed.This was made clear on Friday by Attorney General Dale Marshall who said the State will challenge the rulings of Justices Cecil McCarthy and Cicely Chase who awarded Pedro Ellis and Larry Patrick Agard a combined $155 000.Justice Chase awarded Agard $95 000 for the 14-year delay in having his matter heard, while Justice McCarthy awarded murder accused Agard $60 000 after he ruled that his constitutional rights to a fair hearing within a reasonable time and to bail had been breached.Ellis had also been awarded $75 000 by Justice Shona Griffith for being unlawfully detained for 18 days after he was acquitted of murder.“In each of those cases, the issue was the delay that besets the criminal system and how it has infringed individual’s constitutional rights and in each of those cases, those people got damages awarded. I can tell you now that I have given instructions that we are to appeal two of them. We’re fighting back on some of the legal fundamentals, we’re going to appeal the last two decisions,” Marshall announced at a press conference at police headquarters.