Even as Vijay Mallya renewed an appeal against his extradition to India, the liquor tycoon suffered another legal setback on Friday in a separate $ 40-million claims case brought by British liquor giant Diageo plc in the UK High Court.
Justice Clare Moulder ruled against the 63-year-old businessman’s application to seek a delay in the full hearing in the case scheduled for May 23 and additionally ordered him to pay legal costs of 34,000 pounds.
She was extremely critical of the unexplained delays by Mallya in clearing the unpaid invoices of his previous solicitors Greenwoods, which resulted in his new solicitors Joseph Hage Aaronson (JHA) finding themselves in difficulty and wanting to seek an unfair adjournment.
