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Trial dates for the constitutional claim filed by companies owned by businessman Allan Warner, a longtime friend of former prime minister Dr Keith Rowley, are likely to be set later this month for 2026.

Justice Frank Seepersad is presiding over a lawsuit by Warner’s companies — Warns Quarry Company Ltd, Warner Construction and Sanitation Ltd, Inez Investments Ltd, Pres-T-con 2021 Ltd, and Allcrete Ltd — and 12 people, including Warner’s son Akulo Warner, charged with illegal mining, who are challenging the police’s detention of heavy equipment and a property seized as part of an ongoing investigation into their mining operation.

Seepersad adjourned the matter to October 29, after attorneys for the Attorney General asked for a short adjournment to settle the issue of legal representation.