A HIGH Court official has delayed a decision on Dudley Council’s buyback challenge against Dudley Muslim Association to take back land earmarked for its multi-million pound mosque.
After four hours of legal arguments at London’s High Court earlier today, Master Marsh reserved his decision and is now expected to give his ruling at a later unspecified date.
Last year the council lodged the court bid to pursue the buyback clause, which maintained the council was entitled to buy back the Hall Street land, if the mosque was not substantially under way by December 31, 2008.
DMA’s defence was dismissed in November last year but the group was given a further opportunity to submit an alternative defence to the decision.
If DMA is successful on this occasion, the case will go before a High Court judge later in the year.
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