Barbuda Council Ordered to Pay Legal Costs in PLH Land Lease Case
The Barbuda Council has been ordered to pay approximately $140,000 in legal costs after losing a court challenge regarding lease payments from the Peace, Love & Happiness (PLH) development.
The case centered on a $5 million advance payment made by PLH under an agreement with the government and the Barbuda Council. According to Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan said the court ruled that the council had no grounds to claim direct lease payments, as the funds had been lawfully deducted from the advance.
Speaking on the Browne and Browne Show, Astaphan explained, “The Barbuda Council had agreed to an escrow arrangement and a memorandum of agreement, which explicitly allowed for the deduction of lease payments from the $5 million advanced by PLH. The court found that this agreement was legally binding and dismissed the council’s case outright.”
With the court ruling against the Barbuda Council, Astaphan confirmed that it must now cover PLH’s legal expenses, as well as its own attorney fees.
Astaphan criticized the council’s decision to bring the matter before the courts, arguing that it was well aware of the terms it had previously agreed to.
“The Barbuda Council was part of these negotiations from the start. They knew the arrangement, they agreed to it, and they accepted the $5 million advance. Their attempt to claim that PLH never paid for the land was misleading,” he said.
This ruling marks another legal defeat for the Barbuda Council in its ongoing disputes over land rights and governance.
Astaphan highlighted that the council has repeatedly lost cases over land agreements, including previous attempts to challenge government policies on Barbuda’s development.
The Barbuda Council has yet to comment on the ruling or how it plans to settle the legal costs.
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The part that i do not like is that the money comes from the Treasury in the end. Not one dollar comes out of the pockets of the council members that took the case to court. The same thing I was arguing when Justin Simon was loosing every case he was taking to court and up to the Privy Council. Remember he took the Hadeed Group APC to court for offloading their own container with an engine. And now this government has to settle all these cases. The next one that comes to mind was when they fired Sir Gerald from the Electoral Commission. The had to pay him lots of money.