A Stockholm court docket had tossed Ash Pournouri’s lawsuit in March.
A Swedish appeals court docket has reinstated the lawsuit filed by Avicii‘s former supervisor towards the late EDM icon’s property, giving him a recent shot at claims a decrease court docket had thrown out earlier this yr.
The Svea Courtroom of Enchantment has discovered {that a} Stockholm District Courtroom decide did not carry out a correct analysis earlier than dismissing the claims introduced by Arash “Ash” Pournouri towards the property of Avicii, whose actual identify was Tim Bergling. The appellate court docket has returned the case to the District Courtroom for a brand new listening to.
“The district court docket didn’t have the idea to — with out first giving the appellants the chance to make clear their declare and with out having clarified the defendants’ protection throughout the framework of a trial — take a place on the admissibility of the declaratory motion,” reads the enchantment ruling, translated from Swedish. “Consequently, a procedural error occurred within the District Courtroom.”
Pournouri sued the property in December, alleging its operators breached a non-disparagement clause within the 2016 contract that ended his eight-year administration relationship with Bergling. Pournouri on the time challenged what he characterised as a distorted public narrative about his position within the DJ’s loss of life by suicide, arguing that he was subjected to “character assassination” within the 2017 Netflix documentary Avicii: True Tales and in two subsequent approved biographies.
In response to Pournouri, these tasks falsely urged he drove Bergling to suicide by overworking him and pressuring him to maintain performing by way of psychological and bodily well being struggles. Decide Linda Rantén dismissed the swimsuit in March, ruling that Pournouri had not met the technical necessities to hunt a declaratory judgment over a breach of the 2016 termination settlement.
The appeals court docket discovered that willpower got here too quickly. Its ruling acknowledged that the District Courtroom lacked the idea to rule on the admissibility of the declaratory motion with out first letting Pournouri make clear his declare, and concluded {that a} procedural error had occurred.
“My declare was publicly characterised as unfounded and the case as misplaced,” Pournouri instructed Billboard. “The Svea Courtroom of Enchantment has now discovered that the dismissal was a procedural error and overturned it. The choice is remaining and can’t be appealed.”
Individually, Pournouri sued True Tales director Levan Tsikurishvili for defamation final yr. A Stockholm court docket acquitted Tsikurishvili of gross defamation in June, as first reported by Expressen.
