Barbados Today Online newspaper was today [30.10.2017] ordered by the Barbados Court to pay Leader of the Opposition an undisclosed settlement resulting from an article it posted that questioned her qualification to practice law in Barbados.
Barbados Today Online Newspaper Ordered to PAY Mia Mottley
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David
Just in case you decide to register, if this blog was Barbados Underground Limited, are you aware that you can sue the company.
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Can anybody explain for 5 marks?
The DLP stages a political meeting yesterday with the LEC theme. Today the Barbados Court awards settlement to Mia because she was able to show proof that she is qualified to practice law in the Courts of Barbados. Who is the Jackass, Hal Gollop or the DLP directorate!
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After allegations by the DLP insinuating that Mottley is not qualified to practice law in Barbados and she subsequently winning a defamation suit against Barbados Today, relative to that on-line paper posting articles that questioned her legal qualifications………………
…………… the FIRST news item on tonight’s (October 30, 2017) CBC TV8 Evening News, featured Stuart criticizing Mottley at a constituency branch meeting.
It is interesting to note that CBC’s management said the station broadcasts political messages only during an election campaign, but the cameras were at Deighton Griffith School, recording Stuart, in his CAPACITY as president of the DLP, addressing the party faithful.
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When yuh tek on people fire rage this does be the outcome.
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David October 30, 2017 at 7:11 PM #
“Can anybody explain for 5 marks?”
“Who is the Jackass, Hal Gollop or the DLP directorate?”
@ David
For 5 marks I’m guessing BOTH are jackasses.
This makes Hal Gollop look like an idiot.
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Well we know all the jackasses, many of them based on BU acting in their yardfowl capacities…
…she should sue Hal Gollop….the ministers like foolish lowe and fruendel got parliamentary privileges….Gollop got none….and ya notice Dumbville never joined in.
I still got a problem with that lawsuit though….if anyone should know if Mia has a genuine legal qualification is her advisor Peter Kutappa-Harris….owner of barbadostoday.
Now let’s here it from the BU Yardfowls…lol
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David October 30, 2017 at 7:11 PM #
Or the voters for believing the rubbish?
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It’s now 7:23pm and CBC’s news anchor has NOT mentioned the law suit.
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Anyone who doubted her legal qualification based on a rumblings behind the cloak of privilege is a moron.
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Artax October 30, 2017 at 7:23 PM #
Lol. CBC … you surprised? Really? Waste of time.
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Now let’s HEAR IT, HEAR IT, HEAR IT from the BU Yardfowls…lol
Too much excitement….ah wonder if they will keep repeating it on the election campaign trail and on political platforms right up to election day…….and on the blogs.
At least Fractured BLP should be able to tell us that…lol
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What is stunning is that it was known that Mia never had a LEC but special provision was made for a few lawyers as the transition to the LEC was being processed in the 80s.
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what is stunning about that, from what perspective?
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That the DLP would have attempted to hang a political strategy around the issue.
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It appears those LEC exemptions happened across the Caribbean…at that time, at least that is what someone from those times involved in certain processes was able to reveal……
…..but yardfowls did not want to hear, they just swallowed the koolaid from the dummies of parliament and viola…lol
Now they look so foolish….can they ever appear on BU again, they don’t have that many blogging options, not just anyone can put up with them….lol
They will all be poisoned with koolaid by their fool ministers before they can vote in 2018…
Ah gotta stop ah been laughing all day..
Fractured.., ya not only damaged and broken, but thoroughly poisoned with koolaid…lol
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Fractured BLP October 30, 2017 at 6:53 AM #
Well Well
The facts of this case Law case with MAM is beyond your level of comprehension.
And I don’t necessarily BLAME you and others who have doubts about this matter.
But here is what you all have to prove:
• Evidence of her certification to practice in the UK
• Evidence of her LEC from a Law School in the Caribbean to practice law in the Caribbean
• Is her degree a pure Law Degree or a Degree with another subject and Law ?@ Fcuktured BLP
Perhaps the excerpt from Stetson Babb reading the StarCom Network News should provide adequate proof:
“According to court documents obtained by StarCom Network News, Barbados Today ACCEPTED that Ms. Mottley IS a PROPERLY QUALIFIED and PRACTICING ATTORNEY in BARBADOS and the CARIBBEAN from the time of her admission to the Bar in 1987.”
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David October 30, 2017 at 7:33 PM #
Understood. It points to significant ignorance. Quite explanatory. The alternative is bold faced misguiding, our honorable gentlemen would never do that, surely.
So, the answer has to be significant ignorance.
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I put it down to pure evil…it was not ignorance, it was a deliberate and malicious act to deceive the electorate….to be reelected
Ignorance would be the semiliterate yardfowls that believe everything ministers and politicians say…….that is as high a level as ignorant as any fool can get and still have something resembling a brain.
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Art…why you had to do that…lol
Not even 24 hours and that nonsense returned to bite Fractured Yardfowl so hard.
Ah told them the case was today, it may end today, go down to the supreme court.
Now they can’t even show their faces.
Angela Yardfowl had a lot of talk for me, she cussed me and called me an e-sow…a new word she plagarized during her BU abscence..lol
This is really too funny.
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David anyone with a modicum of commonsense understood this was a nonsense issue. Clearly the DLP were happy to throw mud at Mottley and basically smear her in the eyes of their faithful.
None of their team or the media should have been so foolish as to get caught in a legal trap to face the courts…but now this court settlement clearly shows these folks are absolute JAs.
The parallels to US are stark.
There the WH also uses blatant lies and misdirection to keep their base agitated with the Russia matter but just as here a few of them got into legal tangles and they will all pay a hefty price. The Flynn indictment will be huge.
As far as I am concerned this is also huge because it makes the current AG Brathwaite look like a JA cubed…. did he not promise to get back to the country with clarity on the allegations. Clearly he was investigating a fabrication and perpetuated the folly.
Is that what we expect of our chief law officer: cheap party political tricks. Of course not.
If this party – of which admittedly I used to admire its officials – is returned to power then we Bajans are truly the absolute JackAsses.
But then again Trump won so who knows what will happen.
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This was Fruendel’s birther issue. This was how he was going to tell Barbados it is better to chose an INCOMPETENT prime minister that a person passing themselves off, fraudulently, as a duly qualified and certified lawyer.
BLASTED JACKASS.
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What it points to, that those involved in making the allegations, have no clue.
Think about that for a minute….and understand the repercussions for the country.
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@David October 30, 2017 at 7:11 PM “Who is the Jackass, Hal Gollop or the DLP directorate!”
Dear David: Do we have to choose?
Lol!
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Yeah…after the funny part wears of, what remains highlights with even more clarity, the total incompetence and desperate tactics of a clueless government.
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@Artax October 30, 2017 at 7:15 PM “It is interesting to note that CBC’s management said the station broadcasts political messages only during an election campaign, but the cameras were at Deighton Griffith School, recording Stuart, in his CAPACITY as president of the DLP,”
Are you surprised then that some people call it DLPTV?
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Steupsss
…Mia and her pal Harris arranged this ‘suit’ to kill off the stupid DLP shiite talk about LEC…Every damn brass bowl body (except angela and Fructured) understand that this was some kinda grandmudda clause around the time the law was changed …and where Mia pulled some family strings to avoid going to T&T..
Lotta shiite
…meanwhile, the damn place going to Hell in a shiite bucket …and not a fella saying anything relevant…
Frig all-o-wunna…
BBs!!!
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“Steupsss
…Mia and her pal Harris arranged this ‘suit’ to kill off the stupid DLP shiite talk about LEC…”No way was it a genuine lawsuit, said so from the very beginning, hate how they misuse the supreme court…
But Bushman….the yardfowls look so stupid right now, that if they are so brazen as to show their faces on BU again to give us talk, it will be at their own risk….and they deserve what they get…..a total win, win…..lol
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Can anybody explain for 5 marks?
The DLP stages a political meeting yesterday with the LEC theme. Today the Barbados Court awards settlement to Mia because she was able to show proof that she is qualified to practice law in the Courts of Barbados. Who is the Jackass, Hal Gollop or the DLP directorate!
@ David, this is not strictly correct. Ms Mottley did not have to prove anything. There is a presumption of falsity applying to all defamatory statements. The more likely scenario is that Barbados Today was unable to establish the truth of what was published.
Very similar to the Chris Gayle v Fairfax Publishing Ltd case in Australia.
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@David October 30, 2017 at 7:33 PM “That the DLP would have attempted to hang a political strategy around the issue.”
You remember the old lady on the bus?
The DLP knows that its political base is ignorant, but useful.
This non-issue was intended to cause the base to doubt the integrity of Ms. Mottley, and to lead them to vote DLP again, to their own detriment.
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LEC, LEC, LEC
What.
Stupseee.
If I raised a child from infancy to adulthood am I a parent or not?
Or does a piece of paper determine whether I am a parent?
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Jeff…that is why it appears suspicious…Jordan I believe is the editor in chief….according to my daughter who was on the board of her university newspaper….while the owner or chairman of the newspaper knows of Mia’s existing qualifications…..he or she will not get involved in the day to day publishing, particularly WHAT is published….Jordan having had years of experience at Nation prior to barbadostoday….would have known much better….about Mia’s qualifications..
Hence it is not clicking….
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“David, this is not strictly correct. Ms Mottley did not have to prove anything. There is a presumption of falsity applying to all defamatory statements.”
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Since Mottley does not have to prove anything………….
………….is Jeff Cumberbatch suggesting Mottley would win if she sues the DLP for implying she is not qualified to practice law in Barbados?
…………..or she does not have to respond to her accusers, because the onus is on the DLP to prove she is unqualified?
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Whst makes this even worse, the attorney general after making a big show about an investigation in LEC….never followed up or refuted the claim from parliament….never felt it necessary to tell the public….it was a misunderstanding or anything, he allowed the lie to float for 2 years..
A total disgrace.
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What is stunning is that it was known that Mia never had a LEC but special provision was made for a few lawyers as the transition to the LEC was being processed in the 80s.
David
The above statement is not quite correct. As far as I can recall, special provision was made to benefit one caucasian lawyer. Mia and two other black lawyers found themselves to be fitting into the same set of circumstances that were tailored for the white guy and they took advantage of the loophole that was opened.
Sent from my iPad
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de pedantic Dribbler October 30, 2017 at 8:00 PM #
“As far as I am concerned this is also huge because it makes the current AG Brathwaite look like a JA cubed…. did he not promise to get back to the country with clarity on the allegations. Clearly he was investigating a fabrication and perpetuated the folly.”
@ dpD
Yes, I agree that “anyone with a modicum of commonsense understood this was a nonsense issue.”
Hal Gollop was also made to look like a JA as well.
In June 2015 Brathwaite promised to commit the office of the AG to investigate whether or not Mottley was qualified to practice law in Barbados. As at October 30, 2017 (2 years and 4 months after), Brathwaite has not revealed the results of that investigation.
What made this shiite more silly was the fact that recently, DLP General Secretary, George Pilgrim, announced at a press conference at DLP Headquarters that formal correspondence was written to Brathwaite requesting him to “clear the air” on the need for a legal education certificate as a condition to practice law in Barbados……….. in keeping with the following:
Legal Education Certificate Resolution No.8 passed at the (DLP) 62nd Annual Conference 2017:
WHEREAS there has been much debate in our Parliament, call in programs and social media about the possession of a Legal Education Certificate in order to practice law in Barbados
AND WHEREAS doubt has been cast on the possession of such a certificate by a practicing lawyer,
ANE WHEREAS there is need for clarity in this matter,
BE IT RESOLVED that this conference calls on the Attorney General to clear the air on the legitimacy of the requirements for the LEC as a condition of practicing law in Barbados.
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Why not a resolution into why Barbados experienced 21 consecutive credit rating downgrades under Finance Minister Sinckler…………
……….. but then again,” Stuart congratulated him for “staying the course.”
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Why Mottley don’t sue Hal Gollop his accusations are worse than the claims in Harris’ paper. Jamaicans have a saying duppies know who to frighten.
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It’s early………… Gollop only spoke yesterday…………. you’re making it seem as though he spoke 2 or 3 weeks ago.
You never know what may happen.
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Maybe you should ask Hal Gollop how he could charge the taxpayers 1.5 million dollars for a liitle work.
The people of Barbados would like to know what is Hal Gollop’s hourly rate.
……….and he has an LEC.
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They say Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned
As if downgrades were not enough to ponder, Bajans worried about Mia LEC
As that dog will not hunt, they will now focus on s……ty. -
Passing strange Gollop knows so much about this LEC shiite …and can’t provide Bajans with some light on his visit with a Mrs Smith …who later turned up dead?
Someone should sue Hal Gollop to shed some light on this visit…..But then again…. all of us are jokers….
We are facing a life and death crisis of RIGHTEOUSNESS, ….and all the donkey we on and on about are the shiite mouthing of clearly incompetent politicians and lawyers.If EVER a set of people deserve what they are about to reap…..
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@Artax
The Politicians will say and do anything to fool the masses with smokescreens to continue lining their deep pockets..
Bajans are some of the most ignorant and backward people who continue to be hooked on both Parties of deceit whilst sucking salt and complaining among themselves.
The EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS FAILED THE BARBADOS POPULATION.
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Freedom of the press has a price.
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Well there goes the dems ace……or so they thought.
As my spouse said today, if this fails, they would go back to the same sex talk.
A man like the PM who is so stuck up that he thinks it is beneath him to engage the population has the gall to get on their TV and say Mia has no positions on anything…………
Lord help us.
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@Caswell
Why is it we dont name the other lawyers that received a pass from the LEC?
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@Jeff
Thanks Jeff for the clarification. Is it fair to say that Barbados Today would have had access to what is known about those who qualified for a pass from the LEC and therefore the ruling today (30/10/2017) will stand as a good precedent?
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Barbados Today will have to hire more lawyers.
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The following was posted by Liz Thompson to her FB Wall:
Mia Mottley and the DLP LEC Distraction
Unable to defend their dismal record, the DLP has resorted to the politics of distraction. Barbados Today has already paid dearly in a legal settlement on October 30, for repeating the DLP’s propaganda.
Here is the truth.
• Mia is appropriately qualified to practise law in Barbados.
• At the time Ms Mottley was admitted to the Bar, there was no legal requirement for persons trained in the UK and Commonwealth countries to hold the Legal Education Certificate in order to practise law in Barbados and other Caricom countries.• Mia was allowed into membership of the Society of the Middle Temple of the Inns of Court of the United Kingdom on the 6th of August 1984, while still a student of the London School of Economics where she was reading for a degree in law.
• She was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the London School of Economics on August 1st, 1986.
• Mia was called to the Bar in the United Kingdom on July 23rd 1987.
• Mia was admitted to practise law in Barbados on December 18th, 1987.
• Ms Mottley was presented in the UK by Sir Henry Forde QC the former Attorney General and (The Right Excellent) Errol Barrow, former Prime Minister.
• She was presented to the Bar of Barbados by Sir Henry Forde, Q.C, M.P and former Attorney General, and joined by Sir Maurice King, Q.C, MP, the sitting Attorney General of Barbados at the time.
Mia’s application for admission to practice was presided over and approved in Court by the then Chief Justice, His Lordship, Sir Denys Williams.
What was the law at that time?
• The Council of Legal Education was established to standardise legal training across the Caribbean for admission to the Bar.
• Caribbean law schools awarded its graduates the Legal Education Certificate for practise.• The law exempted from requirement from the LEC, “Any national who prior to January 1985, has undergone or is undergoing, or has been accepted for a course of legal training leading to the qualification.”
• This exemption applied to all persons who returned to Barbados after completing legal studies in the UK or Commonwealth, including Ms Mottley.
• There is currently one judge and several attorneys who were trained in the England and have been admitted into practice under this legal provision.
Mia Amor Mottley M.P, is an attorney at law and from 2002, held the senior rank of Queen’s Counsel. She is a former Attorney General of Barbados. In the course of her legal profession, she has practised in Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, before Her Majesty’s Privy Council of the United Kingdom and acted as a legal consultant on matters in Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago. She is properly qualified to practise law in Barbados as she has done for years
There is a Treaty governing the establishment of the Council of Legal Education and several pieces of legislation which apply to this matter. The Legal Profession Act Chapter (Cap) 370 of the Laws of Barbados, the Legal Profession (Qualifications for Admission to the Practise Law) Rules 1985, Statutory Instrument Number 24 of 1985 and the Supplemental Agreement Act Chapter 366, and the Council of Legal Education Order, Statutory Instrument Number 23 of 1985.
It is telling that we are not hearing any DLP Attorney General, present or former, leading the charge against Mia and saying she is not qualified to practise at the local Bar.
Keep your eyes open for many more DLP distractions before and after the bell is rung. Do not fall for Dem.
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Poor Kaymar, the Nation newspaper booted her because she attracted too many defamation law suits now the same at BT.
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@ David,
Read page 3 of BarbadosToday.
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