The Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) has been blocked from mak­ing good on its threat to evict a group of ven­dors from the Break­fast Shed (Femmes du Chalet) at the end of this month.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that the in­junc­tion was grant­ed by High Court Judge Christo­pher Sieuc­hand yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The ven­dors, through their lawyer Ken­neth Munroe-Brown, sought the in­ter­im re­lief af­ter they were is­sued with no­tices re­quir­ing them to va­cate the premis­es by April 30.

In Sep­tem­ber last year, Ude­cott is­sued de­mand let­ters for the ven­dor to pay al­most $2 mil­lion in rental ar­rears.

The move re­sult­ed in the tem­po­rary clo­sure of the fa­cil­i­ty.

The in­junc­tion is re­port­ed­ly part of sub­stan­tive le­gal ac­tion be­ing pur­sued by the ven­dors over long-stand­ing is­sues over the fa­cil­i­ty.

The ven­dors are claim­ing that they are still owed com­pen­sa­tion for when they were re­lo­cat­ed to the fa­cil­i­ty af­ter their orig­i­nal Wright­son Road lo­ca­tion was de­mol­ished for the con­struc­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre. They have al­so claimed that they were over­charged for elec­tric­i­ty, as they were wrong­ly clas­si­fied as in­dus­tri­al cus­tomers as op­posed to com­mer­cial. They al­so took is­sue with the fact that Ude­cott takes back spaces an­nu­al­ly dur­ing the Car­ni­val sea­son with­out them re­ceiv­ing com­pen­sa­tion.

The in­junc­tion is ex­pect­ed to stay in place un­til the case comes up for hear­ing on May 12.