Nandlall appeals dismissal...
file identified documents and that the judge failed or refused to take into account that the Appellant/Claimant had already prepared all the requisite documents and therefore same could have been filed and served upon the other side the very day, were leave granted by the Court to do so.
He said that the dismissal is erroneous, unlawful, oppressive, contrary to the rules of natural justice and violative of Article 144 (8) of the Constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, illegal, null, void and of no effect and bad in law.
The lawsuit stemmed from allegations made by Williams about Nandlall’s acquisition of Commonwealth Law Reports while he served as the Attorney General under the former PPP/C government.
Nandlall’s claim was filed on April 4 of this year. Some three weeks later, he was charged and placed before the Magistrates’ Court with fraudulently converting over $2 million worth of law reports. That trial is still ongoing. Nandlall was seeking: (i) damages in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for slander published on the 24th day of March, 2017, at a press conference hosted at the National Communication Network Inc.;
(ii) damages in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for libel published on the 24th day of March, 2017, at a press conference hosted at the National Communication Network Inc.;
(iii) damages in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for libel published in the Guyana Times Newspaper, at page 11, March 25th, 2017;
(iv) damages in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for slander published during an outreach programme in Berbice, on the 26th March, 2017;
(v) damages in excess of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for libel published by Demerara-waves on the 27th day of March, 2017; (vi) exemplary/aggravated damages; (vii) interest on all damages awarded pursuant to Section 12 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act Chap 6:02; and
(viii) an injunction restraining the Defendant, by himself, his servants and/or agents from publishing, or caused to be published or saying or caused to be said or repeating of and concerning the Claimant, the offending statements in relation to the Commonwealth Law Reports.