CRIMINAL BAR ASSOCIATION president Israel Khan, SC, says he is eager to know if the Stanley John report into how the State failed to defend itself against a $20 million lawsuit, unearthed evidence of wrongdoing on the part of any individual. John, a retired judge, reportedly handed over the 60-page report to Attorney General Reginald
THE state’s failure to defend a malicious prosecution lawsuit, which saw an eventual order by a Master of over $20 million in compensation to nine men acquitted of the murder of Vindra Naipaul-Coolman, was blamed on the case file somehow disappearing. This was the explanation given to the country, including the Prime Minister, at a
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IN WHAT may be the largest award in TT’s judicial history, the nine men acquitted of the murder of businesswoman Vindra Naipaul-Coolman in 2016, will each receive $2.1 million in damages for malicious prosecution, which after additional costs amounts to $20 million.
SHERVON PETERS, one of the nine men who were collectively awarded just over $20 million, after suing the State for malicious prosecution in the Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder case, has said the judgment can’t compensate for the years he and his former co-accused spent in prison.