Peter Nygard outside court at a previous hearing.
By AVA TURNQUEST
Tribune Chief Reporter
aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
SUPREME Court Justice Indra Charles yesterday recused herself from Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s contempt of court sentencing.
Justice Charles stressed her decision was an independent action, and not linked to Mr Nygard’s recusal application that was scheduled to be heard yesterday.
Mr Nygard was not present at court and his lawyer Rouschard Martin told the court his client was suffering from a spinal problem. Mr Martin produced a letter from an American doctor.
The sentencing matter will now be transferred to Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson and resumes on Monday.
The charges stem from a breach of retired Justice Rhonda Bain’s July 13, 2013 injunction prohibiting him from engaging in dredging activities at his Simms Point/Nygard Cay property.
Justice Rhonda Bain, in a written ruling last July, convicted Nygard for engaging in dredging activities on the sea bed near Nygard Cay between March and April 2015, and again in October of 2016, despite her June 2013 injunction prohibiting him from doing so.
Justice Bain thus said Nygard’s actions warranted him paying costs on a “full indemnity basis,” and further ordered Nygard to pay costs to include the costs of the mitigation hearing to the applicant in the matter, Save The Bays (STB), on a “solicitor and own client basis”.
Justice Charles inherited execution of the sentencing for the case after Justice Bain retired.
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