If she wants any redress for being dismissed from the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), Dr Maria Agard will have to refile her case.
Justice Olson Alleyne yesterday threw out a case brought by the Member of Parliament for Christ Church West through Hal Gollop QC and Lynette Eastmond, challenging her expulsion from the party on November 22, 2015.
In Agard’s civil suit in which she sought damages, party chairman Mia Mottley had been named as the first defendant with general secretary Jerome Walcott as the second defendant.
However, during the case, Roger Forde QC and Leslie Haynes QC had argued that neither Mottley, who is Leader of the Opposition, nor Walcott had been authorised to act on behalf of the members of the BLP and the proper defendant ought to have been the members of the party’s National Council.
Following a two-hour hearing in Court No. 11 of the Supreme Court, Justice Alleyne ruled that Agard had sued the wrong parties using the wrong claim form. (RB)Â
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