Legal Update

Update and Overview of Litigation - GDAHCV2021/0290 Grenada Land Actors Inc. v The Planning and Development Authority, Singapore Heng Sheng (Grenada) Developments Pte. Ltd. The Hartman Group Ltd. and Range Developments (Grenada) Ltd.

Grenada Land Actors Inc. (GLA) wishes to inform its members and the public of the latest event in its case. 

 On Tuesday, 29 March 2022 Justice Raulston Glasgow gave judgment in GLA’s favour on the preliminary issue of whether or not GLA was legally entitled to bring the action in the public interest.  The court in effect denied the applications by the Physical Planning and Development Authority (the Planning Authority) and the three developers to strike out the claim.

The court awarded costs against the Planning Authority, Range Developments Grenada Ltd and The Hartman Group. The court did not make a costs order against Singapore Heng Sheng (the Levera developers) as it found that they had not made an application to strike out despite the fact that it  participated in the strike-out challenge. 

The court ordered the Planning Authority and the developers to file their defenses within 28 days. However, the court granted them leave to appeal and a stay of proceedings until the appeal is heard and determined. This means that nothing further can be done to prosecute the substantive issues until the appeals are heard.  Copies of the written judgement will be made available on receipt from the court.

GLA wishes to thank its legal team, including ELAW, its members, friends and supporters. GLA looks forward to their continued support in this matter which raises issues of public importance to Grenada Carriacou and Petite Martinique, indeed to the wider Caribbean and to the world. GLA firmly believes that environmental issues wherever occurring in the end impact the Earth and eventually will affect us all.

GLA