New date for Reko Diq case at BVI court
National
January 10, 2021
LONDON: The High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has postponed the hearing on the enforcement of the $6 billion award in the Reko Diq case until the 18th January and meanwhile Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) assets registered in the BVI jurisdiction remain frozen.
The News and Geo has learnt that the hearing on Thursday lasted only for about half an hour and Justice Gerhard Wallbank of the BVI High Court of Justice, after dealing with some procedural matters, fixed the new hearing date for 18th of January where for half a day Pakistani lawyers will present their case for the first time as the freezing order during the last hearing was issued ex parte. Injunction on the PIA assets including Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, Scribe Hotel in Paris and Minhal Incorporated remains in place till 19th of January 2021, shared a source from Pakistani legal side that attended the meeting. The receive
There will be no ‘BVI Christmas’ with carrot cakes, coconut tarts and Guavaberry wine for controversial Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert as it seems even the pandemic can t keep him in the Virgin Islands for the holidays. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI-There will be no ‘BVI Christmas’ with carrot cakes, coconut tarts and Guavaberry wine for controversial Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert as it seems even the pandemic can t keep him in the Virgin Islands for the holidays.
According to a press release from Government Information Service (GIS) on December 18, 2020, Governor Jaspert, who has been under fire for what some have deemed as insensitive and racist remarks about reparations for chattel slavery and the preservation of names of landmarks in honour of perpetrators of the brutal acts of slavery, will be out of the Territory until early January 2021.