Removal of seized vehicles from Court

A. H. & L. Kissoon sues A. G. for damages in excess of $10M
RESULTING from the removal of three vehicles from the Supreme Court compound, after they were seized from CLICO on a court’s Order for non-payment of $146M fire insurance judgment, the Attorney General was sued yesterday for damages in excess of $10M.

The plaintiff in the matter is A.H. & L. Kissoon Ltd., on whose behalf the original consent judgment by Justice William Ramlal was effected. It related to judgment in respect to fire insurance for the burnt out Park Hotel.

In the Indorsement of Claim filed in the Supreme Court Registry on Wednesday, the plaintiff is claiming:

(i) A declaration that the Attorney General, with intention to injure the plaintiff or recklessly caring whether or not the plaintiff would suffer injury, is guilty of misfeasance in public office by menacingly demanding that the acting Registrar of the Supreme Court on the 14th August, 2009, to release, without an order of a Judge of the High Court, the motor vehicles set out in the Schedule by a Marshal of the High Court at the instance of the plaintiff under a writ of execution dated 4th December, 2008, pursuant to a judgment of the High Court given on the 11th day of September, 2008, by the Honourable Justice W. Ramlal in Action No. 346-W of 2001;

(ii) Damages in excess of $10, 000, 000 for the said misfeasance in public office by the said Attorney General;

(iii) The plaintiff also claims exemplary and/or aggravated damages for the oppressive, arbitrary and unconstitutional action of the Attorney General who at the same time of such behavior threatened the Acting Registrar in a letter dated 14th August, 2009, that his “failure to heed this instruction will result in such action against you as I may determine.”

(iv) Such further or other relief as the Court may deem just;

(v) Costs.

The writ was issued by Mr. Rex H. Mc Kay, S.C. Attorney-at-law, for the plaintiff.

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