Harlequin boss censured by court in elderly man's damages claim

Laura Miller
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The chairman of struggling overseas property investment scheme Harlequin is under fire again, this time for failing to give evidence to a court within the judge's deadline.

In a case brought by an "elderly" man injured in the construction of Harlequin properties in St Vincent, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court dismissed claims David Ames was too busy to file his witness statement. The court denied his request for a retrospective extension, on the grounds it had taken him and his legal team almost three years to ask for it, which the court branded "excessive and inexcusable". Harlequin denies responsibility for the man's injuries. The decision is likely to mean that even though Ames eventually provided his witness statement seven months after the ori...

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