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The Court of Ap­peal has re­served its de­ci­sion on the fu­ture of lit­i­ga­tion chal­leng­ing the mass ter­mi­na­tion of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors.

Ap­pel­late Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, James Aboud, and Ricky Rahim re­served their judg­ment af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions from lawyers for the spe­cial pur­pose-State com­pa­ny and one of the af­fect­ed con­trac­tors, East­man En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed, dur­ing a hear­ing at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

In the ap­peal, East­man is claim­ing that High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed erred when she stayed its case and re­ferred a con­tentious as­pect of it, deal­ing with the ex­ten­sion of the con­tracts, days be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC.