Man wore smart glasses for High Court 'coaching'

A man has been accused by a High Court judge of wearing smart glasses to secretly receive "coaching" while giving evidence.

The claim arose during a ruling by Judge Raquel Agnello KC in a case brought by Laimonas Jakstys over the directorship of a property development company that owns a flat in south-east London and land in Tonbridge.

Jakstys was told to remove the glasses after the court noticed he "seemed to pause quite a bit" before answering questions, and that "interference" was heard coming from around the witness.

The judge later found that he had been "assisted or coached in his replies to questions put to him during cross examination" during the January trial.

Once the glasses were taken off, an interpreter was still translating a question when Jakstys' mobile phone began broadcasting a voice - which he later blamed on Chat GPT.

Agnello said: "There was clearly someone on the mobile phone talking to Jakstys. He then removed his mobile phone from his inner jacket pocket."

He denied using the smart glasses to receive answers, and denied they were connected to his phone.

But the judge said multiple calls had been made from his phone to a contact named "abra kadabra", whom he claimed was a taxi driver.

She said she did not need to determine who was coaching Jakstys, but accepted that he was "being assisted or coached" in his replies during cross‑examination.

She ruled: "In my judgement, from what occurred in court, it is clear that call was made, connected to his smart glasses, and continued during his evidence until his mobile phone was removed from him."

Agnello concluded: "Not only have I held that Jakstys was untruthful in denying his use of the smart glasses and his calls to abra kadabra, but the effect of this is that his evidence is unreliable and untruthful."

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