For years we've been reporting on the multitude of lawsuits that the Ashcroft Alliance has brought against the Government of Belize for its 2009 acquisition of BTL. There have been wins and losses on both sides, but government has managed to retain possession of the utility. But tomorrow in the Caribbean Court of Justice, all the lawsuits are dramatically converging in a raft of lawsuits which will have the highest court of appeal tied up for three days of dense legal arguments - arguments which will determine authoritatively if government was right to have acquired BTL.
A virtual battalion of attorneys, Senior Counsels and Queen's Counsels from Belize and the UK are in Trinidad tonight awaiting the commencement of legal hostilities which begins tomorrow at 10am Trinidad.
An advance release today from the Caribbean Court of Justice calls it a quote, "ground-breaking case for the Caribbean,"
The Court will be presided over by the President of the Court, Sir Dnis Byron along with Justices Saunders, Wit, Hayton and Anderson.
Lord Peter Goldsmith, Edward Fitzgerald, Godfrey P. Smith, Eamon Courtenay, Jose Alpuche and Pricilla Banner will appear for the Ashcroft Alliance and while Denys Barrow, Nigel Hawke and Naima Barrow will appear for the Attorney General and the Minister of Public Utilities.
We'll tell you how the first day of proceedings went in tomorrow night's news.
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