Tamak Distribution Ltd and Tamak Retail Ltd will have to make good to Pentagon Universal Ltd, the sum of Rs 100,000 being the damages awarded by the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court to the plaintiff company for the prejudice it suffered.

The Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd (MCB) lost its plaint with summons claiming for the reimbursement of Rs 6.8 million owed by two directors of APCO Ltd, Patrick Staud and J.L. Edouard Rouillad.

The litigation between the Permanent Secretary, Asha Devi Burrenchobay, and the three editors of l’express, namely Raj Meetarbhan,Touria  Prayag and Gilbert Ahnee and  the publisher, La Sentinelle Ltd, turns in favour of the applicant.

In a ruling delivered last week Justice Rehana Mungly-Gulbul sitting in Chambers  has declined to validate  the attachment proceedings initiated by a French expatriate, François Michel Pascal  Petiau, against his former associate, Serge Lachkar and Société de Philrose.

Justice Prithiviraj Fekna sitting at the Assises Court has ruled once more in favour of the prosecution in the case of Police against Jean Desiré Humberto Charles who is being charged with having on 6 May 2008 criminally and willfully and with premeditation killed his concubine Marie Greta Menes in breach of the Criminal Code.

The State of Mauritius through the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life tried without success for the refund of a sum of Rs 3,899,999 for an alleged defective lithotripsy machine for breach of contract by the defendant company, Ducray Lenoir Limited, following a tender exercise carried out by the plaintiff.

The Appeal Court in a ruling delivered last week has upheld the 7 years’ penal servitude inflicted on appellant, Said Maudarun.

Justice Prithiviraj Fekna. sitting at the Assises Court, has ruled in favour of the constitutionality of a dying statement made by Marie Greta Menes in an interlocutory judgment delivered last week in the case of Police against Jean Desiré Huberto Charles.

Magistrate Patrick Kam Sing sitting at the Industrial Court has last week sentenced the proprietor of Kaddy Plus Supermarket, H.H. How Hok Chin, to pay a fine after the accused was found guilty of having used abusive words to the address of one of his employees, cashier Mayva Laurent.

Debarred barrister Devendranath (Dev) Hurnam, the plaintiff, has survived a preliminary objection of counsel appearing for the defendant, the Commissioner of Police, to the effect that the Plaint with Summons for damages amounting to Rs 50 million discloses no cause of action and should be set aside with costs.

In a ruling delivered last week, the Appeal Court, having on the bench the Senior Puisne Judge, Keshoe Parsad Matadeen and Justice Ashraf Caunhye, has quashed the order made by the trial Judge and remit the matter back to the Family Division of the Supreme Court to be heard anew by another Judge in accordance with the observations the two judges made for the determination of the child’s objection to return to his divorced and remarried mother now living in the United Kingdom. 

Former Chief Commissioner of the Rodrigues Regional Assembly, Johnson Roussety, who stood charged with the offence of “influencing Public Officer” in breach of Section 9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 2002 (POCA), has been found guilty and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by the Intermediate Court last week.