An­na-Lisa Paul

With one day left to go be­fore he is sched­uled to host the largest break­fast par­ty in the coun­try, pro­mot­er An­tho­ny Young will re­turn to the Court of Ap­peal this morn­ing.Jus­tices Al­lan Men­don­ca and Nolan Bereaux are ex­pect­ed to rule on the de­ci­sion by the St George West Li­cens­ing Com­mit­tee, which ear­li­er this week, dis­missed Young's ap­pli­ca­tion for an "oc­ca­sion­al li­cence."Young's at­tor­ney Kei­th Scot­land is hop­ing that de­ci­sion will be re­scind­ed.

Mean­while, Scot­land was al­so grant­ed leave to amend his ap­pli­ca­tion be­fore the Court of Ap­peal to in­clude the dance­hall li­cence, which the com­mit­tee failed to rule on.Young was seek­ing an oc­ca­sion­al li­cence as well as a dance­hall li­cence for D'Orig­i­nal Vale Break­fast Par­ty to be held on Car­ni­val Sun­day night at Amethyst Park in Di­a­mond Vale.

The dis­missal came on Tues­day, af­ter An­nette Mc Ken­zie, Se­nior Mag­is­trate at the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates Court and head of the Li­cens­ing Com­mit­tee, blanked Young's ap­pli­ca­tion on the ba­sis that the venue was in­ad­e­quate for the num­ber of pa­trons ex­pect­ed and there were in­ad­e­quate park­ing fa­cil­i­ties.

Mc Ken­zie lat­er grant­ed an oc­ca­sion­al li­cence to pro­mot­er Col­in Miles, who will host the Sun­ny Side Up Break­fast Par­ty at the St Michael's Parish Hall, Wendy Fitzwilliam Boule­vard, Di­a­mond Vale, on Feb­ru­ary 10.

Fil­ing an ap­peal on Young's be­half on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, Scot­land was grant­ed a hear­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing.Call­ing the mat­ter around 10.03 am, Di­a­mond Vale res­i­dent Lisa Mail­lard, who was cit­ed as a re­spon­dent, ex­plained to the court that she had on­ly been served around 8.52 pm on Wednes­day and had been un­able to re­tain a lawyer in time.

Mail­lard formed part of the Di­a­mond Vale Res­i­dents Com­mit­tee, which had ob­ject­ed to the two par­ties on the grounds that they were de­nied a right to en­joy life and prop­er­ty as it of­ten drew crowds in ex­cess of 4,000 peo­ple, which led to gen­er­al nui­sance prob­lems such as a traf­fic grid­lock, peo­ple uri­nat­ing on walls, fights, ex­ces­sive­ly loud mu­sic, in­dis­crim­i­nate park­ing, peo­ple en­gag­ing in sex­u­al acts, prop­er­ty be­ing de­stroyed and the use of ob­scene lan­guage.

Al­though Scot­land gave oral no­tice of an ap­peal on Tues­day, he said up to 10 am yes­ter­day, he had not yet re­ceived the notes of ev­i­dence.The mat­ter will re­sume at 11 am to­day.