A Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (Cepep) con­trac­tor has failed in its bid to re­vive its law­suit chal­leng­ing a mass ter­mi­na­tion ex­er­cise in the State com­pa­ny.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment a short while ago, Ap­pel­late Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, James Aboud and Ricky Rahim dis­missed East­man En­ter­prise Ltd’s ap­peal over a judge’s de­ci­sion to stay the case.

The pan­el ruled that High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed could not be fault­ed for stay­ing the claim based on East­man’s fail­ure to en­gage in me­di­a­tion and ar­bi­tra­tion be­fore lit­i­ga­tion, in ac­cor­dance with a clause un­der its con­tract.