In its appeal against a Full Court ruling awarding rice miller Arnold Sankar close to $100 million that it was ordered to pay for breach of a paddy deal, the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is arguing that the judges made several legal errors.
The Rice Board, in its notice of appeal, is arguing that Justices Jo-Ann Barlow and Simone Morris-Ramlall erred and misdirected themselves in law by finding that Justice Diana Insanally, before whom Sankar’s lawsuit was initially being heard, had jurisdiction to award Sankar judgment for unliquidated damages.
As a matter of fact, the Rice Board is of the view that since Sankar’s judgment award was made on the basis of a specifically endorsed writ, Justice Insanally was lawfully correct in declining to grant any such award in the first place. It says that the unliquidated claim was improperly couched in a specifically indorsed writ.
