In a judgment handed down in the High Court in Trinidad and Tobago last Monday, Professor Julie McFarlane was ordered to pay Dr Emir Crowne TT$450,000 (J$9.68 million) at the end of a defamation suit filed in his home country.
Crowne, who has gained a reputation as being one of the Caribbean’s most outspoken sports attorneys, told The Sunday Gleaner that he would be enforcing the decision of the Trinidad and Tobago court in Canada to have a permanent injunction placed on McFarlane, barring her from repeating the allegations.
McFarlane is currently a law professor in Canada at The University of Windsor, where Crowne was employed as a lecturer between 2007 and 2015.
The court said McFarlane admitted to sending an email to the dean of the Faculty of Law at The UWI, Mona, copying it to other persons at the university, with the unsubstantiated claims.
The court found that before that, in April and May of 2017, McFarlane called partners at a law firm in Canada where Crowne was working, making similar allegations.
