Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday filed an urgent application seeking to set aside the default judgment ordering him to pay former government minister Annette Ferguson $20M, owing to his failure to file a defence on time in a libel action she brought against him.
The application was emailed to the media by now Attorney General Anil Nandlall who had been Jagdeo’s lawyer when the action was brought against him last January in his private capacity. He was Leader of the Opposition then.
Nandlall was appointed AG on August 2nd, 2020 after the PPP/C was declared winners of the March 2nd, 2020 polls.