LORD Krishna Appiah and Carmini Harripersaud are seeking to have the Registrar of Lands, Miss Juliet Sattaur, jailed for contempt of court for allegedly breaching the order of the Honourable Chief Justice (ag) Mr. Ian Chang, S.C., with regard to issuing in their favour certificates of title in respect to parcels of land located at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo. Their contempt applications are to be heard shortly, and Ms Sattaur will likely have to show cause why she did not carry out the instructions of the Chief Justice to issue certificates of title to the applicants in respect to the properties.

The contempt summonses have been issued by Attorneys-at-Law Mr. R. N. Poonai and Mr. S. J. Poonai of the law firm Poonai and Poonai,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           and are said to have resulted from a writ of mandamus heard by Madam Justice Diana Insanally in May 2012, when she had granted an Order Nisi, which was subsequently made absolute by the Chief Justice, who had directed Ms Sattaur, as the Registrar of Lands, to issue certificates of title to the applicants.

The applicants are saying that since the service of that Order of the Honourable Chief Justice on Ms Juliet Sattaur on October 12, 2012, she has wilfully, intentionally, and maliciously refused to comply with the order, and is blatantly disobeying the order of the learned Chief Justice dated August 6, 2012.

Moreover, in relation to the applicant Carmini Harripersaud, the CJ had made the Nisi Order absolute, and had directed same to the Registrar of Lands, compelling her to issue certificates of title to the applicant.

The applicants are contending that the Registrar of Lands’ refusal to issue certificates of title to them is unlawful, arbitrary and unreasonable.

The lands at issue are Parcel 1, Block VIII, and parcels Nos. 551 and 552, Block IV, Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.