Justice Sandra Kurtzious has set June 16th to rule on the application filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo who is seeking to set aside a $20M default judgment he has been ordered to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson who had brought a libel action against him.
When the matter was called yesterday morning, the judge related that she was in receipt of written submissions from both sides and that the Court would move ahead with fixing a date for ruling.
Back in March, Justice Kurtzious granted Ferguson a judgment ‘in default of defence’ after Jagdeo failed to file his defence within the 28-day time period specified in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).
