Introduction
On 22 February 2023, the Guyana High Court handed down its decision in the action brought by newspaper publisher and crusader Glenn Lall. The action was filed on 22 January 2022 naming the Attorney General as the respondent and essentially sought 17 declarations by the Court that the breadth of concessions granted by then APNU+AFC Petroleum Minister Raphael Trotman not only to the oil companies but to their affiliates, subcontractors and employees of the oil companies and their subcontractors were not permitted by law and were therefore illegal.
