The Ac­cred­i­ta­tion Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ACTT) has been or­dered to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion to the own­ers of a pri­vate ac­coun­tan­cy school that was forced to close due to what the High Court found were oner­ous and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry ac­cred­i­ta­tion re­quire­ments.

On Wednes­day, High Court Judge Robin Mo­hammed ruled in favour of Omardeen School of Ac­coun­tan­cy, up­hold­ing its con­sti­tu­tion­al case against the ACTT. The com­pen­sa­tion is to be as­sessed at a lat­er date.

In his land­mark judg­ment, Jus­tice Mo­hammed found that the coun­cil had dis­crim­i­nat­ed against the school for over a decade, lead­ing to the even­tu­al clo­sure of its three cam­pus­es in Port-of-Spain, San Fer­nan­do, and Ch­agua­nas.