Brian Cottle

A High Court judge in St. Lucia has quashed a dubious decision by the Government of St. Lucia to protect a Government Minister, Keith Mondesir, after he was apparently caught trying to avoid customs duty on household items that he

Insureds of British Virgin Islands based Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd. (in liquidation) have won an important legal victory in their attempt to recover $11 million they claim was defrauded from them in a scheme allegedly masterminded by US

An offshore insurer that operated what may have been an investment scam dressed up as a U. S. tax avoidance scheme endured and enjoyed two contrasting judgments in the same case at the British Virgin Islands High Court over a three-day period in May. It was a tale of two judges for Boston Life and Annuity Company Ltd., which is involved in litigation with 57 of its U. S.-based insureds who claim they are victims of an $11 million fraud allegedly masterminded by U. S. nationals Leo Ford and Denis Kleinfeld and U. K. national Rick May.