Derek Achong

A High Court Judge has grant­ed an in­junc­tion block­ing some mem­bers of a fam­i­ly, who are locked in a prop­er­ty bat­tle with their rel­a­tives, from re­veal­ing de­tails of the case on so­cial me­dia. 

Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad is­sued the in­junc­tion on Sat­ur­day night af­ter the fam­i­ly mem­bers sought an emer­gency hear­ing when they no­ticed a post on Face­book group "Know Your Rights T&T", which re­vealed in­ti­mate de­tails of the case and at­trib­uted com­ments to Ram­per­sad. 

Un­der the in­junc­tion, the claimants in the case were re­strained from con­tact­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the page to make fur­ther posts. Ram­per­sad al­so di­rect­ed that his or­der be post­ed in the com­ments sec­tion of the of­fen­sive post.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the de­fen­dant's at­tor­neys com­plied, but the post and com­ments were sub­se­quent­ly re­moved. 

As part of his de­ci­sion, Ram­per­sad or­dered the claimants to file ev­i­dence on whether they had dis­closed the in­for­ma­tion to the ad­min­is­tra­tors of the page. 

Ram­per­sad al­so or­dered that the case file be sealed for the re­main­der of the case. 

The de­fen­dants, who ob­tained the in­junc­tion, were rep­re­sent­ed by Alvin Pariags­ingh.