Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir, has been denied the stay he was hoping for of a $7.5 million judgment imposed against him for defaming former diplomat and board member of Guyana Power & Light (GPL), Kirk Hollingsworth.
According to a press statement from Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde, who represents Hollingsworth, Justice of Appeal Rishi Persaud, on Wednesday refused Nadir’s application for a stay of execution of the judgment.
Forde said in his statement that the Judge in refusing the stay, concluded that there were no prospects of the appeal succeeding; while going on to find that on the face of the pleading before the trial court, “the defamatory statements were reckless and riddled with defamatory imputations.”
