In what will now be his final bid to evade paying former government Minister Annette Ferguson damages for libel, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has now taken his challenge to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
Before the Trinidad-based court of last resort, he maintains his argument as he did before the courts below, that the trial judge erred in entering a default judgment against him without considering all the grounds of his draft defence.
Though he acknowledges that his defence was not filed within the legal time limit, he continues to advance that both he and his then attorney Anil Nandlall, now Attorney General, were busy with preparations for General and Regional Elections at the time.
