The Court of Ap­peal has up­held the de­ci­sion of a judge to or­der a Bel­mont-based law firm to pay over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion for a fraud­u­lent land deal it was found to fa­cil­i­tate through neg­li­gence.

In a judg­ment de­liv­ered yes­ter­day, Ap­pel­late Judges Maria Wil­son, Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh, and Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son re­ject­ed an ap­peal brought by The Le­gal Con­sul­tan­cy and its own­er, at­tor­ney Richard Beck­les, over the out­come of the case.

Jus­tice Boodoos­ingh, who wrote the judg­ment, ruled that Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad’s han­dling of the ev­i­dence and le­gal is­sues in the case could not be fault­ed.