Default judgment in favour of Ceres, Schwiers against Guyana Times set aside

Charles Ceres

High Court judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln last month set aside a default judgment she had previously granted to engineer Charles Ceres and his wife, Ndibi Schwiers, owing to the failure of the Guyana Times to file a defence in the stipulated time in a libel suit they had brought against the newspaper.

Following the failure of the Times to file its defence to the lawsuit within the 28-day time frame stipulated by the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), Justice Corbin-Lincoln had granted the judgment.