Gail Alexan­der

The ap­prox­i­mate pro­vi­sion­al fee for re­tired Jus­tice Rol­ston Nel­son for his ser­vices in the probe of the miss­ing Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man case file is $500,000 and for re­tired Jus­tice Stan­ley John it amounts to $300,000.

This was con­firmed by Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Camille Robin­son-Reg­is. She give the fig­ures in re­sponse to Op­po­si­tion ques­tions about the terms and con­di­tions agreed up­on for Nel­son and John to as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the miss­ing case file.

Robin­son-Reg­is said Nel­son was re­tained by the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to ad­vise him on all le­gal is­sues on the miss­ing file, in­clud­ing whether the de­fault judg­ment en­tered against the State can be set aside and/or ap­pealed and to ad­vise on the mer­its of any pos­si­ble ap­peal of the de­ci­sion on the as­sess­ment of dam­ages.

Nel­son was al­so re­tained to ap­pear in court, to for­mu­late terms of ref­er­ence for an in­ves­ti­gat­ing team, in­clud­ing pro­vid­ing the AG’s Of­fice with rec­om­men­da­tions for the ef­fi­cient op­er­a­tion of the De­part­ments of the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al and Chief State So­lic­i­tor.

John was ap­point­ed lead in­ves­ti­ga­tor of that in­ves­ti­gat­ing team.

Robin­son-Reg­is added: “The ap­prox­i­mate pro­vi­sion­al fee un­der dis­cus­sion amounts, in the case of Mr Jus­tice Nel­son SC (Re­tired), to ap­prox­i­mate­ly $500,000 and the ap­prox­i­mate pro­vi­sion­al fee un­der dis­cus­sion in the case of Mr Jus­tice Stan­ley John (Re­tired) amounts to ap­prox­i­mate­ly $300,000.