TORONTO - A lawyer for Justin Bieber says he never claimed his client wasn't present during an alleged assault on a Toronto limousine driver who is now suing the Canadian pop star.
Brian Greenspan says his defence has always been that Bieber didn't commit the alleged assault on Dec. 30, 2013, not that he wasn't there.
The lawyer representing the limousine driver told The Canadian Press last month that he looked forward to "cross-examining Mr. Bieber on his non-presence or indeed his non-existence."
Clayton Ruby was quoted in a March 29 story as saying Bieber's lawyer had said his client "wasn't present, it wasn't him."
Ruby retracted part of his statement Wednesday after Greenspan argued it would raise "the suggestion of an inconsistency" in Bieber's version of events, which could hinder him in the suit.
The lawyer says his comment claiming Greenspan said Bieber wasn't present "is not accurate at all," but the part about Greenspan saying it wasn't him "is accurate as far as I knew then, and seems to be accurate today."
