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A High Court judge has declined to rule on whether any party misled the court in a doctor’s legal battle with the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) over its policy for installing high-tension wires on private property.

Instead, Justice Frank Seepersad corrected the official record and advised T&TEC to “thoroughly and comprehensively” investigate the conflicting instructions reportedly given by its in-house legal officer to former external counsel. He said the commission must put proper checks in place to ensure such a situation “never happens again,” during a hearing on November 24.

The issue arose after T&TEC’s legal officer, Candace Price, filed an affidavit stating that former external counsel had misrepresented the commission’s position on policy documents. Her affidavit came after the judge ordered T&TEC to produce the policy governing the installation of high-tension power lines over private land. Price said T&TEC did not intend to mislead the court.