Benefit of doubt to elderly boss for attempt upon chastity of employee
Magistrate Niroshini Ramsoondar sitting at the Intermediate Court has pronounced a verdict of benefit of doubt and set aside the information for attempt upon chastity of a factory employee by a company...
View ArticleNundalallee couple awarded Rs 1,000 for cancelled air-tickets
Roopnarain and Basantee Nundalallee have sued Clavis Travel Bureau Co. Ltd for breach of contract and claimed from the defendant damages amounting to Rs 300,000 before the Intermediate Court Civil...
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Court gives ICAC and DPP two months to charge Hanoomanjee
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been given two months’ time to lodge a formal charge against the former Health Ministry and MSM member of the National Assembly, Mrs Maya...
View ArticleLabavarde family loses appeal
The Labavarde family has lost its appeal against the Nam Cam family in relation to the ownership of an immovable property situated at Arsenal before the Court of Civil Appeal.
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Validation of attachment refused: applicant and respondent are foreigners
Justice Gérard Angoh sitting in Chambers has declined last week to validate the application for attachment (saisie-arrêt) lodged on 1 March 2011 by ING Bank N.V in the hands of the garnishee, the West...
View ArticleAttachment order for Rs 20 million granted
The attachment order (saisie-arrêt) obtained by Philippe François Georges Lenferna, the attaching party against Jacques Victor Guy Randabel in the sum of Rs 20 million before the Judge in Chambers in...
View ArticleRs 4,5 million fiscal evasion fine upheld on appeal
The fine of Rs 4,561,590, which Police Inspector R. Seewoosungkur has to pay after he was found guilty of and convicted for fiscal evasion on non-declared goods imported illegally from Dubai, has been...
View ArticleTruck driver fined Rs 50,000 for homicide
Magistrate Niroshinee Ramsoondar sitting at the Intermediate Court has found guilty Tekananand Pochoo, driver of a goods vehicle guilty of involuntary homicide by imprudence causing the death of...
View ArticleAccused exculpated for breach of ICTA
Bearing in mind the more stringent warning applicable in cases of voice identification to which this Court is fully alive, I find that the quality of evidence available is poor as well as unsupported...
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Teeluckdharry - Leave for judicial review refused to Barrister
The Supreme Court, having on the bench the Senior Puisne Judge, Keshoe Parsad Matadeen, and Justice David Chan Kan Cheong, has refused to barrister Sanjeev Teeluckdharry, leave to apply for Judicial...
View ArticleCourt refuses to annul adoption
Justice Nirmala Devat has set aside the plaint entered by Hamid Auckloo and his wife, Li Ngat Leung, who sought for an order from the Supreme Court for the revocation of the adoption of Jean-Patrick...
View ArticleFrench drug addict gets 12 years for subutex import
Justice Benjamin Marie Joseph sitting at the Assises Court has sentenced French national Toma Carlos Pedraza to 14 years’ penal servitude and to a fine of Rs 100,000 after the accused was found...
View ArticleSun Resorts cleared for breach of OSHA
Justice Saheed Bhaukaurally and Nirmala Devat sitting on appeal have allowed the appeal lodged by Sun Resorts Ltd and quashed the appellant’s conviction for breach of Section 85 (1) of the Occupational...
View ArticleAppeal Bench upholds ruling in favour of an interlocutory injunction
Jugdeo Mungra has been successful a second time in his dispute with Vassiny Anacootee concerning the occupation of a portion of land of 5,000 square metres situated at Beau Songes.
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Declaratory order refused to the Mauritius Law Society
The Commission of Enquiry on the Sale by Levy cases chaired in 2004 by the former Chief Justice, Sir Victor Glover, never enquired into the undue practices of certain Attorneys at Law. And as such the...
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Declaratory order refused to the Mauritius Law Society
The Commission of Enquiry on the Sale by Levy cases chaired in 2004 by the former Chief Justice, Sir Victor Glover, never enquired into the undue practices of certain Attorneys at Law. And as such the...
View ArticleEx-Fiancé to be compensated for breach of marriage promise
Oumar Mohammad Kandeerally has been successful in his claim for damages from his former girlfriend, Rhumesia Beebeejaun, before the Intermediate Court.
View ArticleWarning is mandatory
Car driver Ashwin Dave Ratacharen, sued for smelling of alcohol while the ethylotest indicated a positive result, has last week obtained the discharge of the information on the ground of procedural...
View ArticleWidow to recover pension deprived of since 1994 through civil status error
Meeteela Dooly, the widow of Dhanraz Dawokolay will receive her widow’s pension as from 3 September 1994.
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Writ of injunction refused to a former Spiritual Master
Justice Saheeda Peeroo sitting in Chambers has refused to issue an interim order in the nature of an injunction ordering Satyam Gyanam Anandam Society (SGAS) and/or its agents and/or its préposés not...
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