The Ro­man Catholic Church has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in a lengthy le­gal bat­tle with a fam­i­ly over con­trol of a prop­er­ty on Monos Is­land used for its sea scout­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

De­liv­er­ing a de­ci­sion, late last month, three Law Lords of the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil re­fused sib­lings Martha and Dean Joseph leave to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal in their law­suit against the Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op of Port-of-Spain.

In their failed ap­peal, the sib­lings were claim­ing that High Court Judge Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well and three Court of Ap­peal Judges got it wrong when they dis­missed their case and up­held the RC Church’s claim to the prop­er­ty.