SOCA artiste Patrice Roberts has been ordered to pay her former management company more than US$30,000 following a High Court ruling, but successfully counterclaimed for US$9,000 in unpaid digital royalties.

In a judgment delivered on Tuesday, Justice Robin Mohammed found that Soca Bookings Incorporated was entitled to compensation for services rendered to the artiste between 2015 and 2017, despite shortcomings in its contractual claim.

The dispute arose out of an oral management agreement reached in February 2015, under which the Canadian-based company provided what it described as full artiste management services, including bookings, branding, recording arrangements and international promotion.