KINGSTON ATTORNEY-at-law Jennifer Messado has been joined with businessman Gordon Tewani in a civil suit for alleged conspiracy to defraud and to injure another businessman, Indru Khemlani, arising from the sale of a property.
Tewani's companies, Tewani Ltd. and Commercial Corporation Jamaica Ltd., are also joined in the suit. Justice Lennox Campbell granted the order for Messado to be joined as a defendant.
Khemlani, operator of American Jewellery Company, King Street, Kingston, had sued Tewani and his companies to recover a property at 70a King Street. He is contending in the suit in the Supreme Court, that he sold Tewani a shop at Tropical Plaza for $17 million because he owed money to a bank. He is contending that the delay in paying him the entire sum of money resulted in the bank auctioning his property at 70a King Street.
PROPERTY BOUGHT AT AUCTION
Tewani bought the property at the auction. Messado had represented Tewani in the sale of the Tropical Plaza property while attorney-at-law Raymond Clough represented Khemlani.
The Court of Appeal heard an appeal brought against certain orders made in the civil suit. In handing down the judgment in December last year, Justice Henderson Downer (now retired) said certain serious allegations were made against Messado and Clough.
The court recommended in the judgment that it would appear that actions for breach of contract, negligence, or breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy to injure Khemlani in his business was the most appropriate way to proceed.
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