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Article

10 Jul 2016

Author:
Werner Menges, The Namibian (Namibia)

Namibia: Former De Beers Marine employee granted permission to sue company as a pauper; company appeals court decision

"Diamond giant appeals over 'pauper' label", 7 July 2016

In an appeal...De Beers Marine Namibia [part of Debeers Group] wants the Supreme Court to overturn a High Court decision that allows a former De Beers Marine employee, Dirk Loubser, to sue the company as a pauper who is unable to pay legal fees...Loubser...is suing De Beers Marine for N$4,3 million [US$296 000.00] in connection with an incident in which he was seriously injured on a mining ship of the company on 5 February 2008...Loubser suffered a brain injury when he fell through a hoisting hole - used to move equipment from one deck of the mining ship to another...Senior counsel Raymond Heathcote, representing De Beers Marine, told the three appeal judges...that the company's appeal was not aimed against the nobility of the ideal that a litigant should be entitled to legal representation, but against 'the brutality of the method' used in the High Court's judgement to achieve that goal.