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Lawyers in fist fight over young attorneyPublished: 29 May 2009
The legal fraternity was abuzz yesterday, when news spread that two male lawyers came to blows over a young female attorney, shortly after midnight last Friday in Port-of-Spain. Yesterday, one of the combatants spoke to the T&T Guardian about the incident, in which he rained blows on his colleague, who sustained head, mouth and face injuries.
A report has been lodged at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Port-of-Spain, and an Insp Edwards is conducting the investigations. It started when a lawyer who has strong connections to the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM), went on a lime with other lawyers at a bar on Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, last Friday night. There were several other lawyers there, including Law Association President Martin Daly, SC, and some of the attorneys who took part in the Uff Commission of Inquiry, which ended that same day.
The lawyer went with one of his juniors to the lime, leaving her boyfriend, another lawyer, to lime with his friends elsewhere. However, as time went by, the boyfriend became concerned for his girlfriend. She made a call on the boss’ cellphone, saying she was alright, and that she would meet him later to collect a key to his home. Hours went by and the boyfriend, who practises in the criminal courts, went in search of his girlfriend. He made calls to cellphones of his girlfriend and her boss, but there was no answer.
He decided to drive over to his girlfriend’s work place, and saw her car and also that of her boss parked on a street in Port-of-Spain, shortly before 2 am.
The boyfriend pressed the doorbell numerous times, but there was no answer. He also called the cellphones again, but there was no answer. “I did not know what to do. I walked down the street, across the next street, up the next street and came back. I pressed the bell again; no answer. I rang the phones, no answer,” he told the Guardian. As the boyfriend was about to give up, he noticed his girlfriend coming down the steps, seemingly in an intoxicated manner. She uttered certain words to him, forcing him to fly up the steps and confront the boss. He found the boss cleaning up the room. He beat the boss, who practises in the civil courts. “I was so mad, I wanted to throw him down the steps. What is wrong with these fellas?” he asked. The boyfriend and his girlfriend went to the CID and made a report.
While there, the boss turned up, suffering from injuries to his head, face and mouth. He, too, made a report. While there, a Senior Counsel and his brother-in-law arrived at the police station. However, up to last night, the female attorney had not given a formal statement to the police, as she is being legally advised by a senior lawyer. No charges have been laid against anyone, although the boss indicated that he wanted no police action. The boyfriend said he was not going to hide the incident. He spoke openly about it yesterday in the Hall of Justice. “If I have to repeat it one hundred times, I will do it,” he said.
http://guardian.co.tt/news/general/2009/05/29/lawyers-fist-fight-over-young-attorney