THE ATTORNEY GENERAL was given until August 19to file and serve supplemental affidavits when the Arch Cot lawsuit came up for hearing yesterday in the No 6 Supreme Court.
This after the AG’s office applied to have the judgement which was awarded by Justice Dr Sonia Richards overturned.
It was back in March that the judge had ordered Government to pay damages to the ten defendants involved in the multimillion-dollar lawsuit after she found that no defence to the suit had been filed or served by the Attorney Generals’ office. That ruling was swiftly appealed.
The case involves one of the most horrific incidents in Barbados in which an apartment building at Arch Cot Terrace, Brittons Hill, St Michael, collapsed, killing a family of five who included Donavere Codrington, his wife Cassandra and their three children. (MB)
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