NASSAU, BAHAMAS The Court of Appeal has denied Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s application for conditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council its decision to dismiss an appeal that sought to quash a judge’s contempt of court order.
On February 4 of this year, the applicant filed a notice of motion for conditional leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the February 1, 2021, appellate court judgment dismissing his appeal seeking to quash the November 2019 decision of Supreme Court Justice Bowe-Darville.
Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard.
The judge had found Nygard to be in contempt of the court and ordered him to be committed for 90 days and a fine of $150,000 was imposed. Nygard had been fined for breaching an injunction order granted by Justice Keith Thompson. The fine was to be paid within seven days of the ruling. Failing to turn himself over to police or failure to pay the fine would have resulted in an additional 30 days in prison and a $5,000 fine for ea
NASSAU, BAHAMAS The Court of Appeal has denied Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard additional time to appeal a contempt order for breaching a Supreme Court injunction.
In November 2019, Justice Ruth Bowe-Darville had sentenced Nygard to 90 days’ imprisonment and fined him $150,000 for breaching an injunction order granted in February of that year by Justice Keith Thompson. The fine was to be paid within seven days of the ruling. Failing to turn himself over to police or failure to pay the fine would have resulted in an additional 30 days in prison and a $5,000 fine for each day the fine was unpaid.
Bowe-Darville had imposed the sentence in the fashion mogul’s absence as he had failed to appear for the hearing.
The Bahamas Petroleum Company logo.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has made an application to the Supreme Court seeking security for costs in the sum of $200,000 in light of the legal action launch by local environmental groups Waterkeepers Bahamas Limited and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay.
Last month, Supreme Court Justice Petra Hanna Adderley ruled that BPC and Bahamas Offshore Petroleum Company may be added as a party in the judicial review, accepting the position that they would be directly impacted by the legal proceedings.
Waterkeeper Bahamas Ltd. and the Coalition to Save Clifton Bay are seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision to approve exploratory oil drilling in The Bahamas.
Ruling on oil drilling expected ‘ASAP’ Stena Drilling’s Stena IceMAX drillship.
After hearing both sides on the matter involving whether Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) should be allowed to proceed with its exploratory oil drilling yesterday, a Supreme Court justice is set to deliver a ruling “as soon as possible.”
Justice Petra Hanna-Adderley heard from the lead attorneys representing Waterkeeper Bahamas Ltd and Coalition to Save Clifton Bay, the government as well as BPC yesterday and adjourned the matter until 5 p.m. today.
Fred Smith, QC, who represents the environmental groups, in his argument contended that the issue at hand is whether the exploratory oil drilling exercise now underway by BPC was lawful and whether the process of licenses being granted by government included all of the steps required by law, including the issuance of permits as well as proper consultation.
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Oil exploration opponents yesterday sought the Supreme Court s approval to add the Town Planning Committee as a fourth respondent in their challenge to Bahamas Petroleum Company s (BPC) drilling.
Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, in moving to amend their initial Judicial Review action, argued that the planning regulator should be added because it has failed to order BPC to cease it activities in waters 90 miles west of Andros given the seeming absence of site plan approval.
Joe Darville, a director of both environmental groups, alleged in a December 29, 2020, affidavit that the Town Planning Committee is required by law to halt any projects that breach the planning laws - as he and his fellow activists claim BPC has done.