Attorney demands front-page apology, damages over ‘defamatory’ reports - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Attorney demands front-page apology, damages over ‘defamatory’ reports - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Attorneys for Martin George, the senior attorney recently charged with two sexual offences, have issued a pre-action protocol letter to the Trinidad Express newspaper and its parent company Caribbean Communications Network (CCN). They are accusing both media houses of defamation and demanding an immediate front-page apology, retraction and damages. “We call upon you to immediately publish on the front page in the next issue of the Sunday Express…

‘Fronting’ backfires on EPCM Bonisana

A Pretoria husband and wife embroiled in a complicated “fronting case” have had to wait for more than a year for EPCM Bonisana to buy them out of the company despite a court ordering this be concluded within 10 days.  In May last year, Nicole and Ebrahim Patel obtained a Pretoria High Court order compelling Thomas Cowan and Dirk Odendaal, two directors of EPCM Bonisana to buy them out after the parties fell out.  The complicated story starts on …