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Kaieteur News approaches CCJ over $15M judgment
A $15M judgment that was handed down by the Court of Appeal in January against Kaieteur News is headed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
Publisher of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall
On Wednesday, Khemraj Ramjattan, lawyer for the National Media and Publishing Company Limited which owns the newspaper, filed a motion asking for leave to appeal the judgment at the CCJ.
The applicants were named as Glenn Lall, Publisher, and the National Media and Publishing Company Limited, while Dr. Walter Ramsahoye was named as the respondent.
According to the motion, on January 29, 2015, the Court of Appeal, comprising Justice B.S. Roy, Madame Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justice Diana Insanally, by way of a majority decision, increased a previous judgment against the newspaper from $4.5M to $15M.
The newspaper argued that it is aggrieved by the decision to raise the judgment to $15M and as such was exercising its right of appeal to the CCJ. It asked for an order of the Court of Appeal to take the matter to the CCJ.
The newspaper said that the CCJ regulations allow a person aggrieved with a decision of the Court of Appeal to appeal to the CCJ as a right in civil proceedings where the matter in dispute, on appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice, is of value of not less than $1,000,000 or where the appeal involves directly or indirectly a claim or question respecting property or a right of the aforesaid value.
The original libel suit was filed in 2000 by Walter Ramsahoye, a medical doctor.
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