Acting Chief Justice Roxane George has issued a permanent injunction blocking the government’s holding company, NICIL or anyone acting on its behalf from enforcing the notices that were served on several persons leasing NICIL owned lands and properties to move.

The injunction formed part of a ruling handed down by Justice George yesterday in which she found that several leases done by NICIL under the former government were properly done and legal and therefore those lease agreements could not be revoked by NICIL.

Just after the government changed last year, the new government dispatched several letters to force a number of companies and individuals to surrender the lands and properties that were leased from NICIL on the grounds that NICIL wanted the properties and lands for it own use.

The PPP Civic government was contending that the leases were illegal and improper. But in her ruling yesterday, the Chief Justice found that there was nothing illegal about the leases.

The Court action was filed by a number of companies and later joined by others, who sought the Court’s protection from being evicted from the leased lands and properties.

NICIL did not want the Court to hear the case, arguing that the Court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter. The Chief Justice disagreed and heard the matter, declaring in her ruling that NICIL has not provided any factual circumstance that would allow the termination of the lease agreements.

While she said there could be arbitration between the parties on issues related to the lease agreements, she said NICIL would have to present other grounds than those presented to the Court for any termination of the agreement to be considered.

The lands that were at issue are estate lands at Wales and Enmore.

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