AG’s Office seeks final appeal in $20M Naipaul-Coolman judgment

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has sig­nalled its in­ten­tion to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal over a de­ci­sion by the Court of Ap­peal to up­hold a $20 mil­lion de­fault judg­ment in a ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit brought by nine men for­mer­ly ac­cused of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man.

Ac­cord­ing to a no­tice on the Privy Coun­cil’s web­site, the AG’s Of­fice last month filed an ap­pli­ca­tion for per­mis­sion to ap­peal a judg­ment de­liv­ered by three judges of the Court of Ap­peal in June.

A pan­el of British Law Lords will now re­view the pre­vi­ous judg­ments in the case and de­cide whether it should be heard, as the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal had pre­vi­ous­ly re­fused per­mis­sion for a fi­nal ap­peal.