Works and In­frus­truc­ture Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er will ap­peal to the Privy Coun­cil chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion of the lo­cal Court of Ap­peal in a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar law­suit brought against him by a for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) fi­nancier. Ap­pel­late judges, Wen­dell Kan­ga­loo, Humphrey Stollmey­er and Gre­go­ry Smith, yes­ter­day grant­ed Warn­er's at­tor­neys leave to ap­peal the de­ci­sion of three oth­er ap­pel­late judges last De­cem­ber. On De­cem­ber 20 last year, Jus­tices of Ap­peal, Pe­ter Ja­madar, Nolan Bereaux and Al­ice Yorke-Soo Hon, held that Jus­tice De­ven­dra Ram­per­sad's de­ci­sion to strike out the claim brought by Kr­ish­na Lal­la and his com­pa­ny Re­al Time Sys­tems Ltd was wrong. The law­suit sought to re­cov­er a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar "loan" made to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' chair­man be­fore an elec­tion cam­paign in 2007. The law­suit list­ed Warn­er, trad­ing as Dr Joao Have­lenge Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ren­raw In­vest­ments and CCAM and Co as re­spon­dents. Ac­cord­ing to the law­suit, the loan amount­ed to $13,531,095, with a 12 per cent in­ter­est ac­cru­al, which brought the re­pay­ment fig­ure to $28.1 mil­lion.