Floralia Dangriga to Belize Runs Also Subject of Application for Judicial Review
According to the letter served to the Belize Transport Board, the application also seeks a stay of the last decision by the Board granting permits to Floralia for Dangriga – Belize City runs. Barrow and Williams L.L.P. asked that they not proceed with the implementation of these runs which are scheduled to start on Monday, March fourteenth.
Dean Barrow
Dean Barrow, Attorney at Law
“When we file judicial review, as you would know by now, it is a two step process. You first must get permission to apply for substantive judicial review. The permission application comes up fairly quickly and when the judge is considering the permission application, if he or she grants that application at the same time her or she, I think there is no male judge right now, she would have to determine whether until the formal and final judicial review trial can take place, if they should be a stay of the permits that are being challenged. So, whether to the effect that there would be an interim injunction prohibiting Floralia from continuing those runs until the matter is finally determined.”
Paul Lopez
“The letter to the Belize Transport Board does speak to a request for them to not proceed on Monday.”
Dean Barrow, Attorney at Law
“Yes.”
Paul Lopez
“Isn’t that jumping ahead of the gun a bit?”
Dean Barrow, Attorney at Law
“No, no, we are saying to them listen, we are very confident of our grounds that you the Transport Board issued these permits, certainly the last set of permits, since those are the ones we want the stay for, the ones in December that has been taking place, that has been in effect for too long to try to stay it now. In terms of what is supposed to start on Monday, we are saying listen, we are confident of our case. You would know that once we apply for permission we are at the same time seeking a stay. Do not, as it were, why can’t you, since the run has not yet started, why don’t you stay your hand instead of having these people proceed and if we do get the injunction they have to stop what has already been commenced. Why don’t you wait for a couple of weeks so that we can see whether the courts will grant the interim injunction? If the court doesn’t then you proceed until final trial.”
