[email protected] An oil explorer and its opponents have given sharply different versions of the Christmas Eve legal battle that set up todayтАЩs hearing on the Judicial Review challenge to halt its exploratory drilling. Fred Smith QC, the CallenderтАЩs & Co attorney and partner, yesterday argued that Bahamas Petroleum CompanyтАЩs (BPC) description of the December 24, 2020, hearing before Justice Petra Hanna-Adderley was тАЬdeceptive and misleadingтАЭ because his clientsтАЩ case was not rejected by the judge. BPC, in two statements on the court hearings issued over the Christmas holidays, asserted that Justice Hanna-Adderley refused to give their environmental activist opponents permission to proceed with an action that aims to halt their activities in Bahamian waters.