Shyne Barrow, “There are different layers here.”

King’s Counsel Peter Knox, representing Tracy Taegar-Panton, successfully argued that under freedom of speech, his client can call herself the party leader. However, Shyne Barrow insists that despite this decision, he and his Central Executive still have control over the party’s assets.

 

Shyne “Moses” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“There are different layers here.  The application for restraining orders focused on her passing herself off as leader.  So that was on a speech issue and with all respect to Justice Hondora, I don’t remember a defamation case, a case of speech lying or whatever, that has ever gotten an interim injunction.  So that matter is not completely resolved, it’s just that we won’t get an interim restraining order, but there will still be damages at trial if we are victorious in our position, the main claim is that she should have been restrained and that there is only one leader and that October twentieth should have been invalid.  Furthermore, the restraining order centered on her passing herself off as party leader; the issue as to assets of the UDP has not changed.  The assets of the UDP, the Guardian, Wave, the UDP logo, that has not changed so I don’t see how she can say that she has now gotten permission to use our assets.  If not, the judge would have amended the order and put her back in the headquarters and say, “Alright, you go upstairs and she goes downstairs.”