A doctor’s legal battle against the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) has taken a dramatic twist after the utility’s legal department moved to correct the court record about what it says were misrepresentations made by its former external counsel.

T&TEC legal officer Candace Price filed an affidavit in the High Court acknowledging that previous statements to the court about the non-existence of key policy documents were inaccurate.

“It has since come to the commission’s attention that counsel for the defendant may have represented to the court that T&TEC did not, in fact, have any documents containing the requested information,” Price said in the affidavit filed on October 30. “That statement was inconsistent with the commission’s records and was never an instruction given to counsel.”