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Philip_NichllsIt would be disingenuous of BU not to have read Philip Nicholls’s book More Binding Than Marriage and to provide unvarnished feedback. Nicholl’s has revealed enough about the Barbados Court System, Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock, former partners Allan Watson and Joyce Griffith, Disciplinary Committee, lawyers in the system and much more to be sued if true. It is a damning indictment of the system by a former insider. Also his animosity towards Vernon Smith QC, Barry Gale QC and Charles Leacock merits special mention.

The quiet from traditional media is not surprising.

BU respects the intellectual property of Nicholls, however we posted six pages to give members of the BU family who have not yet purchased some insight to three issues among several raised by Nicholls.

Pages 82 and 83 – Nicholls shares his view as a former President of the about the Disciplinary Committee. He brands it a toothless tiger.

Pages 114 and 115 – Nicholls describes Barbados Court as a ‘total mess’.

Pages 129 and 130 – He decides to leave DPP Charles Leacock to God

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591 responses to “Former Insider Attorney Philip Nicholls Exposes Barbados Court System”

  1. Ann Avatar
    Ann

    Former Prime minister the Hon. Errol W. Barrow pleaded with black people to keep out of the Law Courts. My father in law was a “lodge man” and told me do not look for justice there.
    Enough said.

  2. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    It is that horrible nah. Notice have every shite getting expose about the nasty set ups that profit lawyers in Barbados.

  3. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Is it not a disgrace that in a society, that professes to be christian and intelligent, one can be sued for telling the truth, while the criminals in the justice system and their friends and business partners commit all manner of crimes against the people and roam freely and continue to run around trying to sue everyone for telling the truth.

    What the hell is wrong with that picture and why is this present government not getting rid of DPP Charles Leacock. I did not know DPP was a taxpayer funded post for life for one person.

  4. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    The supreme court system should have been exposed decades ago to start the necessary changes, instead it was left alone in corruption and disarray to generate thousands of helpless victims, no one wanted to change anything, they were all too greedy and self-serving, slimy politics was the order of the day and no one wanted to rock the boat to get rid of the demons occupying the justice system…….so here they are…….hope they are proud of themselves now that everyone from coast to coast knows and are being warned about all of them on the island.

  5. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    This book has cast light in the darkness that occupies the legal and judicial systems,archaic and crying out to be brought into the 21st century.One of its hindrances is the fact that lawyers now abound in Barbados and abound in the parliament among whom are the biggest crooks,thieves,liars and scumbags,so,don’t expect change in our laws too soon.An ineffective system that can allow an uncertified madman to so flout its precepts and principles of what was intended to be proper Justice,and for the head of that system to say to an aggrieved counsellor…..go to your tormentor’s court to be heard…..is nothing short of betrayal and a classic example of passing the buck.Chuk the judicial officers who masquerade the profession.They are worthless,more st home on Mt Stinkeroo,where they truly belong.

  6. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    One of the dangers of opening the floodgates of access to higher education is that among the bright and needy deprived,are the low life scumbags who have no sense of decency in their interaction with John public.So one encounters the likes of Leacock whom attorney Cheltenham once described in court as a cane cutter from Guyana.It is also known that Leacock appeared in court as DPP Barbados but holding a brief for the US government in a case involving extradition of 3 persons and was called out by attorney Hal Gollop for this treachery and was forced to withdraw.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    What BU found to be disappointing is the inability (refusal? ) of Sir Henry to mediate this matter.

  8. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    We all know that the judiciary is dysfunctional and why.

    Staff is selected by qualification, only the very brightest work there – and earth is flat 😉

  9. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    Oh me oh my@David…I have not bought the book (yet?) so your postings are very useful.

    I was transformed back to his days as Secretary of the BCA and those annual meetings where my impressions of Mr Vernon Smith as a supercilious, arrogant son of mother were formed. Interesting now to see that Mr Nicholls was not necessarily over awed by him then…or was he!!!

    Also quite interesting to me is Mr Nicholls’ telling comment of being the first person of colour elected President at Pickwick. I do not know the man personally but I wonder if this is just a wonderful turn of phrase in keeping with his excellent command of the spoken/written word or if its a strongly held precept of the life and times in Barbados.

    As a member of Barbados 1% and being so for most of his youth and adulthood I wonder at the depth of the statement. So very interesting comment from him on race and Barbados!

    But to top it all off was his comment re Charles Leacock to wit ‘you often reap what you sow’.
    No truer words have been said.

    Nicholls came through the system, he saw and used it to his benefit. He conquered it. He now reaps what he sowed.

    He can yet be a hero for his country. Use all his contacts international & local, persuasive power of his father and others, his own power and knowledge to be a ‘whistle blower’ who gets the changes needed to right our listing legal ship.

    That should be the legacy left by the man who embraces his position as the first person of colour to Preside at the Pickwick Club. Greatness can be thrust on us in strange ways….

    But is he up for that very hard, long fight or is this book really about improving finances and settling scores?

    Oh me oh my….

  10. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    The people get the lawyer/politicians they vote for. Why can’t we reform the legal system by allowing the chambers to compete through advertising; by creating new disciplines of conveyancers, welfare advocates, allow non-lawyers to appear in tribunals, etc.
    We allow unqualified police to appear in the magistrates courts, why not other civilians? Bring in consultants o sort out the back in the civil and criminal courts; remove road traffic cases from the courts, unless some one has been injured or reported for speeding. Leave the crooked insurance companies to sort out routine accidents.
    Put an age limit on allowing lawyers to practise. Five year beyond the state retirement age is a good point.
    And, finally, years ago pubic servants who allow membership of other organisations to interfere with their duties became an offence in Britain. Why not Barbados.

  11. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    I was not the least surprised that Sir did what Nicholls said.I have good information on some data in which the individual now deceased was taken for a ride and will perhaps receive her pennies in the ‘sweet by and by’.Hearing it from the horses mouth was not only incredulous but the irony was her other half was a big up in the RBPF.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    Anther takeaway from the book is the influence Nicholls believe was exerted in the police investigators. Frightening!

  13. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    It is known that the Governor General was a Public Prosecutor and was notorious for intervening in criminal cases over which he presided.It is abroad that he had more overturned verdicts at Appeal than most other judges and was the object of derision by counsel at the bar for interfering with the process.There was a notorious criminal from the same district of Boscobelle who delighted in insulting this high court judge,who in the vernacular used to give the judge a lot ‘o sauce and for which he was appropriately dealt with.It was the opinion of onlookers that the judge was aiding prosecutor Leacock to ask pertinent questions as Leacock was seen as his protege.

  14. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Read between the lines to determine why Nicholls had his US visa revoked without his knowledge.Read between the lines to guess who among our judicial officers of note are regulars at embassy functions and who with one phone call can wreak havoc on a man’s ability to live.As Nicholls said …what you respect you sow…Karma

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Why the money laundering charge? Where is the logic.

  16. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    ……what you sow,you reap

  17. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Nicholls suggests that Leacock’s interpretation is if you are criminally accused of stealing large sums of money,it follows that disposal of those funds would be tantamount to laundering.The big question is who stole the money and why did the accuser who had the real thief working out of his own chambers not bring the real thief to justice.Why scapegoat Nicholls.

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Gabriel…the beauty of the US Embassy, they also reserve the right to revoke the US visas of their snitches……all these title holders are now seen for what they really are, people who believed they arrived and can step on and kick down the same taxpayers who paid for their education and subsequently pay their salaries.

    Again I ask……why is Charles Leacock still DPP on the island, I had reason to stand close to this dude a decade ago and he crawled my skin, same reaction I got from standing too close to David Simmons, former Chief Justice……now I know my instincts were right….these types of white collar criminals have ruined the island’s reputation…..get rid of Leacock.

    PM Stuart with a straight face is spouting about human trafficking on the island, they all know the culprits’ identities, get rid of Leacock or there will never be any justice on the island for victims of human trafficking….he will never lock up his golfing partners.

    Nicholls should be given a medal, despite him being ruined which prompted these revelations.

    The players in his book are very dangerous to the welfare and wellbeing of the public.

  19. David Avatar
    David

    If you follow Nicholls and accept what he is saying, Leacock would have been aware of the issue of over drawings by the partners and all that flowed from it.

  20. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ The Blogmaster

    This matter of collusion and depravity within the judicial system WILL NOT GO AWAY and, as revealing as Philip Nicholl’s revelations are, speak to what is a toothless defendant for a horde of ravaging jackals.

    As I get older and these grains of glass expire in the inverted triangle of my fast emptying hour glass, as if by some sort of epiphany, I come to see solutions much easier.

    We need an improvement on the “lawyers in the News Section of this Website.

    An Online Ombudsman for John Public to police the legal fraternity in a way that will remove the impotence of all the agencies that he Nicholls speaks about in his book.

    That solution will

    (a) permit the upload of the name, address, and pertinent details of every single lawyer in Bulbados.

    (b) Allow Bajans who are the clients of these lawyers input experiences with said lawyers just like the Craig’s List.

    (c) allow users to conduct a search of the Lawyers in Barbados Registry to review remarks and make decisions regarding whether to use the lawyers services

    (d) The Reality of said system is that it has two possible outcomes.It can become the Naked Departure nightmare for these lawyers OR effect a better business bureau for those who will stick by rules and be ethical. The system is its own self policing mechanism, IF YOU TREAT CLIENTS GOOD.

    IT WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD STUDENT REPORT CARD, but if you are a tif, you will get bad marks.

    (e) like Naked Departure AND Barbados Underground, host it in a foreign jurisdiction so that local authorities CANNOT bring lawsuits against the platform in a willy nilly fashion.

    My grandson at the *** Bank, tells me that it is still a grey area to determine WHERE THE CRIME OF SAY DEFAMATION IS COMMITTED when the poster is behind a VPN that is in Romania.

    Any UWI student can use Microsoft access database and a Search box that allows users to search for a lawyer’s rating by name, area of expertise, efficiency with his/her cases, litigation pending agains said “ potential tif” etc. He says that ASP script is best used to develop this project.

    WE THE PEOPLE HAVE TO STOP PLAYING THIS BY THEIR RULES WE HAVE TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY TO BE THEIR SCOURGE AS THEY CONTINUE TO RELENTLESS BE OURS.

    The motto of that online tool’s website could be “Keeping Teives Honest when the Judicial Systems, The Director of Public Prosecutions, The Royal Barbados Police Force CANNOT (as in dont want to)

    I am thinking of a tune for the site that will be sung to the tune of “Bringing in the Sheaves” aptly retitled “Reeling in the Thieves”.

    I wonder if Philip Nicholls might be disposed to help refine that platform.

    Certainly if he were truly devoted to what he is suggesting his book is supposed to be, a reality, he might be disposed to funding this platform.

    Tell him send you $25,000 from the proceeds of his $69 exposee and I am positive that me grandson would make that tool available as a bolton to the Lawyers in the News segment in about 6 weeks.

    Of course what i have also noticed is that Bajans love to talk big about dem doggie size but as soon as they are tasked with doing it, they baulk at action.

    Massah trained us dogs well don’t you agree?

    BITCOIN ONLY

  21. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @David, a brief lunch time munch…the tales told by Nicholls casts grave concerns on the behaviour of our legal fraternity and as you noted above it’s frightening to imagine how criminal (and too civil ) cases were compromised by judicial or attorney ‘unethical’ behaviour.

    There was a recent case in the US which highlights such ethics. Interestingly, in my mind it has loud echoes of a former AG who as I recall said ‘ I gine get one’ re a hanging conviction and who later went to the judiciary. So I caution all those with the regular refrain…well that can’t happen here and dis US stuff is not relevant!

    The basic details (all can Google for more: YOU GET DAT AC!!!!) are: The Supreme Court is asked to adjudicate whether a judge (Ron Castille) violated the Constitution when he ruled in a death penalty case in which he was involved with as a prosecutor and thus by refusing to recuse himself, denied the defendant a fair hearing.

    On first blush one says…WT Frig but of course he can’t do that.

    But alas, there is an almost 30 year time lapse here.

    As the district attorney (our DPP basically) he personally authorized seeking the death penalty in the case, and would later tout his firm stance as a death penalty advocate as he sought higher office. So many years later when the man whom he had sought to execute (he was 18 years and this was his second killing) had a stay and an appeal of his case, this DA was by then the Chief Judge and he REFUSED to recuse himself.

    Surprise, surprise his six-justice court reinstated the death penalty by a unanimous vote.

    So it can be argued his influence was minimal as all his colleagues were in agreement….Practical people would say just the opposite…as Chief Judge his influence was overwhelming.

    In BIM conflict/interference, grossly unethical and even illegal issues like this and those beyond this abound no doubt. I suspect the peer influence is just as significant.

    Unfortunately, it takes a wounded and aggrieved lawyer to write tell all books before these matters can be told far less even actually properly interrogated.

    As was said….What they sow so shall we (and they) all reap!

  22. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    de Ingrunt Word March 3, 2016 at 10:45 AM #

    I was waiting for some one to notice the “colour” remark…..I wonder if you are aware that Samuel Jackman Prescod was spokesman for the “coloureds” of Bim……We have many more like him in the Caribbean,including me who refuse to accept the rubbish of white/black to establish the pigment and define a person.

    Have a look at the attached and tell me your thoughts on it

    “I am not BLACK,you are not WHITE

    https://youtu.be/q0qD2K2RWkc

  23. Due Diligence Avatar
    Due Diligence

    Vincent

    Awesome video.

    We got a long way to, bit this video is a good start

  24. Whitehill Avatar
    Whitehill

    I remembered some time in the late ’70s Errol Barrow speaking at a political meeting, he said that as an attorney, one of the tricks the police in Barbados used in getting supposedly confessions from the accused to stand up in court, was that the cops who beat the shit out of the accuse wasn’t the one to take the oral “confession’.” Thus, when asked by the judge if the cop now giving evidence coerced him, obviously no was the answer. As prime minister did he try to change the way things were done, obviously not. I’m sure he saw many things that were wrong with the judiciary here in Barbados… then we had the degenerate Tom Adams and others from both parties.
    Its no wonder Barrow admonished us to stay away from Coleridge street

  25. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Vincent Haynes
    I certainly have always viewed skin colour in much the same way as you say.

    However, while many of us appreciate this approach there are far more who want to banish anyone too light. This starts from the TOP in Bim these days with MPs and I assure you from my contacts in inner circles that get Whitey is high on the Agenda. It may be valid in certain specific cases of virulent white racists, BUT as PVN says clearly they were Whiteys that helped and mentored him.

    It is ironic that those darker racists that pop up on this site fail to appreciate that situations like this case occur where Darker people are attempting to destroy other Dark people or where so called leaders are pocketing the peoples money in large quantities.

  26. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ David [BU}

    The money laundering charge is as “logical” as it is “illogical” since it is meant to be “sticky” and to achieve an objective which is to so tarnish the reputation of the person who is to be destroyed in all realms of endeavour and that is the objective.

    Vivianne Gittens was enjoined in the Sankey Price matter not because she had uttered the lascivious pictures that Sankey slipped into the Nation Newspaper on the night that Morris left that idiot, (Sankey not Vivianne) with the keys, but to do maximum damage and to be disruptive and to have a constant sword of Damacles over the shoulder of the news agency of the Barbados Labour Party.

    Again I cite the Polonium that was administered to the Russian spy to underscore my point that, we do not just kill our enemy, we use the machinery of radioactive poising and the mechanisms of our court to so discredit you in the eyes of the parties that you interact with, that it becomes tantamount to killing you by “long suffering” instead of “sudden death”

    What would be the purpose to have a court case in 1 month like Noel Lynch accomplished in his successful litigation against the Nation when you can stretch it out for 3 or four years and destroy the man who would seek to point out the travesties of the legal profession?

    The VietCong were good at this psychological terror with captured American soldiers when they would tie you and slit your stomach, and pull you long intestines out and put it high above the victims and let them cry out in the pain of deaths so that their buddies would also suffer as they heard their comrades die.

  27. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Since Mr. Nicholls problems began with money, specifically business partners stealing from the partnership, I was left to wonder how without annual audits the partners and the firm could file income tax returns? Nor was he the first to experience this at CC, he references a former partner, whom I believe can be found frequently today on the golf courses of S.Florida, after serving as CJ.
    The ‘firm’ had terrible accounting practices, with the Kingsland chapter highlighting them. He also writes (p428) “The $30 a share purchase price has been hotly debated since then as it to whether it was fair market value, and I cannot remember much of what was discussed then and how it was discussed to arrive at the recommendation.” How many years was Mr.N a director and worked on this file? It seems he can remember a lot else?
    However, again, this is a “business matter”, which seems to be Mr.N’s weakness.
    His entire arrest, and subsequent failure by the prosecution to present a case “smells”. I was left baffled, beyond his father’s explanation in the Forward, to understand where the money laundering charges stemmed from.
    The ‘remedies’ available concerned me. His partners are found guilty, yet the partnership is not reimbursed, nor assets they held liquidated? [they were hidden in companies?] This is when mafia style tactics garner my full respect.
    A tough read. I suspect the author is disorganized, for the flow wasn’t always clear to me. I was left with the feeling that system checks and balances are missing across a wide swath of Barbadian life.

  28. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    POW-ER-FULLLL, Mr Vincent. Great video dat! A wonderful collection of ‘cars’. Great message.

    As said above and brought home again today with a ‘lil’ incident up there there in Seattle wid a famous NFL player…we can have a heart of gold, but when judged by our outer appearance we are often seen as nothing no more than a load of lead!

    re the topic of money laundering…I have NOT read the book but I really don’t see why if a prosecutor is out to get his man and the charge is theft of a large sum of money why it’s not absolutely plausible to bring a case of money laundering. Particularly when that opens the door to more and serious sanctions than the basic underlying theft charge.

    “Money laundering is the generic term used to describe the process by which criminals disguise the original ownership and control of the proceeds … by making such proceeds appear to have derived from a legitimate source.”

    So if monetary theft is alleged this basic definition would fit nicely as an indictable crime, I suspect.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Read the book before posting ish.

    @NorthernObserver

    Did you read the part where he disclosed to readers the PM called him after his return from being arrested.?

  30. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @D
    yes it was at the beginning, but I didn’t read much into it. What am I missing?

  31. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    David, you must educate me here. According to practice and logic where does reading his book supplant the public charge that was brought against the man and which as I recall you have displayed on your lawyer’s page.

    I made a very simpl link between money laundering and that charge. It seems logical to me.

    I am not debating whether its ethical, reasonable or whether the charge of theft was inappropriately and unjustly lodged.

    I am making an assessment based on the international construct re money laundering charges.

    Surely he wasn’t charged with stealing $50 or $500. On the basis of his charge money laundering is a perfect further indictment…like it or lump it, shrewd prosecutors – honest or not – do go after their targets with ‘innovative’ methods.

    Remember what you said earlier today: ” In fact those of us who critique activities in our space of life do so out of a love for country. ”

    You also said: “These 30 people in the House of Assembly are not blessed with any unique ability that we should resign to all their decisions.”

    So let me paraphrase: learned and well-connected attorneys like Mr Nicholls are not absolved from their own missteps because they write tell-all books!!!

    A spade is still a spade until otherwise shown to be a King of Hearts! Ok, bro!

  32. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Read the book.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    Perhaps too brief a response to you. If you buy into Nicholls response that DPP Leacock would have been aware of the defalcation of Watson and Griffith at Cottle then the money laundering charge was ludicrous in his view.

  34. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    MoneyBrain March 3, 2016 at 1:55 PM #

    Who are they aiming at…….have they lumped all as one

    ……if memory serves the hierarchical order in Bim was absentee landlords,Planter/owner on site,manager,bookkeeper/cane weigher,overseers/engineers,chemists/wheelwright these are roughly the free english ones who would come and go,not many of these still here.

    ….then you would have field superintendent/mill supervisors and general workers these would be indentured and could overlap sometimes at the bottom with the previous set,loads of these still here catching their royal.

    ……from the general workers would come villages such Zoares,Glenburnie,Chalky Mount to name a few,some of these to this day maintain a tribal purity with interbreeding being the norm and have never risen above the poverty level.

    You also correctly identified the bajan trait of ascribing whiteness to individuals who would readily admit that their Grandmother was a black women.

    None of the present day business moguls have any connection to the first set above,so who are they targeting and on what basis.

  35. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    de Ingrunt Word March 3, 2016 at 2:46 PM #

    Know who and what you are and where you came from and allow no one to label you but yourself.
    Too many individuals are ready and willing to buy into labels even I at times with my reference to us as a Caribbean pelau but that is said based on a factual background as opposed to the use of pigment/melanin content to define a person.

  36. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    VH
    Any intelligent person these days of lighter colour would be wise to have a DNA test to determine somewhat exact % of racial origin. Sir Richard Branson recently discovered he is 4% Indian! Family lived there for many colonial years and great gran dad sampled the sweett meat on offer! lol Can say I blame him as the Asian “food” eat real good!

  37. Violet C Beckles Avatar
    Violet C Beckles

    If Bajans and others do not believe when people say most lawyers in Barbados are crooks, liars and scumbags and you all have to wait for a Lawyer to write a book, Well that seem to happen Once every 50 years then you all sitting very very sad, Some now even look to talk it down , We are sure he is to be in GOOD Standing with the crooks ass BAR and PAID his BAR DUES, If he did not ,they would then say he is not in good standing and their for a liars? Now the people the lawyers bring to the BAR and turned around seem to be the best lawyers of all ,The BAR is stacked against you just as the High Court and the Deed lease it sits on, For even the High Court have not Right to have been Built there with out the Owners Permission, So the Fowl smelling Court is just as rotten, Each Lawyer in Barbados more than 10 years is a Book deal all by it self….

  38. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @David, I hope to read it some day. If the good gentleman and his publishers see a business case for an EPUB version then maybe I will see it available as an online library option at a site near to me. Beyond that I will suffice with the extracts here.

    When I saw the remarks re the soiree at Hinskon’s house and the sotto voce with the DPP and that level of high roller my bells starting to ping loudly…Here is the consummate insider enticing me to buy his book after he royally fudged up. I’ll pass for now.

    Remember David this is a Harrisonian;scion of a high powered father; got hooked onto one of the most prestigious law firms after his studies;made Partner there; himself became a high powered roller and with many of his class mates (Hinkson, Alleyne, Brathwaite, Commisiong to name a few ) were the movers and shakers in the island.

    That sir is not the profile of a VICTIM.

    A naive or careless or negligent or indifferent or bipolar or whoknowswhat person but not a victim whose book I absolutely need to read.

    Let Phillip use this energy and publicity to start to make things right for the descendants of many of those folks his law firm and his colleague lawyers totally screwed over. Or maybe he can donate the proceeds of the book to the restitution fund. Then we can start talking about buying his tell all book.

    Oh dear, am I am the outlier here. Ooops!

  39. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    oh David, BTW: nice word that….defalcation.

    Sent me to Webster, you did!

  40. David Avatar
    David

    It is Nicholls’ word, likely a whisper from Jeff.

  41. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    MoneyB…behave yaself…lol

    What makes Nicholls’ book so believeable apart from many of us knowing about all the thefts by too many titled individuals in the supreme court, which started way back in 1964, is that the dude was at one time president of the bar association, you do not get more inside than that in an organization. You do not get more upclose and personal than that……anywhere. I am sure thete is more he can tell, mif he wanted.

    What is even more frightening is that though I heard for many decades about the thefts re land perpetrated by these titled people, nothing could prepare you for the matters with claim numbers attached, still rolling throw the supreme court from 1964, many of these titled crooks are dead, left destruction in their wake and started the collusion and stealing while still studying law in England, before even graduating, the6 attached their names to fraudulent transactions before they passed the bar……disgusting as it sounds, these lowlifes’ sole intent upon finishing law school in 1964, was to return to the island with their new knowledge of law, enrich themselves by any means present atvthe time and destroy their own people by any means possible, how nasty and horrific.

    Some of these well known beasts are still alive and have mentored other lawyers, passing on the same evil practices.

    Piece….your grandson’s suggestion is genuis in creativity. Let’s hope it’s implemented before some poor defenseless client gets angry enough to give one of these lawyers their just desserts for stealing their money or property.

  42. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    Incidentally David (remember now I am only going based on your extracts) if Mr Nicholls as an officer of the court has chronicled instances where it’s alleged that fellow lawyers usurped titles to their own personal gain would he and other not be duty bound to make this right at pain of being sanctioned themselves.

    Or it is that the book is saying that these actions were so pervasive across our entire judicial legal process that there is no ability for one person to seek to redress or fix.

    Just wondering..having read the book maybe you can advise.

  43. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @David
    you never responded. I see no reason why Lumpy would lie? It didn’t change any of my views when reading the rest of the book.
    If there is one thing which binds all bajans it is cricket. And both his involvement with the BCA, and his ties to SA who was well connected at the highest levels across all disciplines, I would expect him to be more than ‘known’ to many Barbadians.

  44. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @DIW
    I think Mr.N tells HIS story. It is about HIS experiences. The reader is left to extrapolate as he/she wishes. IMO, some occurrences place him in a positive light and some less so. As such he isn’t talking out legal business per se, only as it applied to him.

  45. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    In all this treachery and thievery by upright,honest men and women partners in Cottle Catford the senior partner Allan Watson now a fugitive from justice as is a former partner
    Michael Simmonds,in all this grandstanding by the judicial arm of government aiding and abetting by acts of omission and commission,in all the delaying tactics by conniving lawyers,scumbag attorneys and downright hooligan lawyers and legally trained vagabonds,in all this nastiness,Sir Neville and Lady Nicholls have stood with their son in attempting,albeit in pure frustration,to resolve the many issues at hand in as decent a manner as is humanly possible.It’s citizens like these who make Barbadians proud.People like Watson,Griffith and Simmonds will not sleep well ever and their off spring would likely carry the burden of their guilt,a most unfair imposition.

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    Colonel Buggy

    With the change of the US Ambassador in Barbados,we may see yet more visas, being revoked. Some of those politicians who now hold Diplomatic Passports,their time will come when they are booted out of office.

  47. MoneyBrain Avatar
    MoneyBrain

    Word

    You know as well as I do that kolijians can be VICTIMS of VAGABONDS like anybody else.

    Indeed, it is his upbringing and environment of TRUST and CLASS that in all probability led to his naivete / innocence of suspicion.

    Trust and money can be distant friends.

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    St George’s Dragon

    The book was available in the bookshop at Sky Mall the other day.

  49. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @Money, I have never been able to buy that pig in the poke argument such as ” it is his upbringing and environment of TRUST and CLASS that in all probability led to his naivete / innocence of suspicion”.

    When a Madoff victim is a seasoned investor who studied at Harvard and jets all over the world in the business community I am not inclined to weep when they are seemingly befuddled in areas where they have expertise.

    That’s a different type of victimology…

    Now if they are a victim of a vagabond who mugs them on the street then of course they have my complete empathy.,,

  50. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Gabriel March 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM “why Nicholls had his US visa revoked without his knowledge..guess who among our judicial officers of note are regulars at embassy functions

    The Chief Justice, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the (on leave) Commissioner of Police.

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