High Court Judge Nareshwar Harnanan in a recent ruling threw out a lawsuit for $120m brought by businessman Larry Singh, which he claimed was owed by the Ministry of Health for rental of his controversial Sussex Street property which was used as a drug bond.
According to a release from Senior Counsel Andrew Pollard, one of the lawyers who represented the State, the judge dismissed the claim, having found that a notice of termination of the tenancy issued by the health ministry had been properly given.
According to the lawyer, the judge found the tenancy to have been validly terminated, and in the circumstances ruled further that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the claim since at all material times, “the Ministry had been a statutory tenant.”