?The T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce (TTCIC) yes­ter­day said it was "pleased" at last Fri­day's judge­ment by Jus­tice Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mor­er, which dis­missed the ju­di­cial re­view filed by the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (UDE­COTT).

The TTCIC said the 142-page judge­ment "ef­fec­tive­ly clears the way for the re­port of the Uff Com­mis­sion" to be for­ward­ed to the Pres­i­dent and then laid in Par­lia­ment. In a two-page state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the TTCIC said, "This will al­low the coun­try to hear the much-await­ed find­ings of the Com­mis­sion. "The mat­ter has be­come even more ur­gent in light of the re­port­ed sud­den res­ig­na­tion on Sat­ur­day of Mr Calder Hart from UDE­COTT and all oth­er State boards on which he served, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect." Hart re­signed from five State boards–UDE­COTT, Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board, T&T Mort­gage Fi­nance, the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Prop­er­ty De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd and Home Mort­gage Bank.

In its ju­di­cial re­view ap­pli­ca­tion, UDE­COTT said the com­pa­ny and its chair­man, Calder Hart, were treat­ed with bias dur­ing the pro­ceed­ings of the en­quiry. The Uff Com­mis­sion had de­cid­ed it would not sub­mit its re­port un­til a judge­ment on the ju­di­cial re­view case was de­liv­ered. TTCIC said the judge­ment by Dean-Ar­mor­er is a time­ly one be­cause "it comes in the midst of fresh al­leged ev­i­dence com­ing to hand, which gives rise to a per­ceived con­flict of in­ter­est be­tween the then chair­man of Ude­cott and Sun­way Con­struc­tion Caribbean Ltd. UDE­COTT has signed $820 mil­lion worth of pub­lic sec­tor con­tracts with Sun­way Con­struc­tion.

The al­leged ev­i­dence, con­tained in doc­u­ments sourced by the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), points to strong links, through birth and mar­riage cer­tifi­cates, be­tween Sher­rine Hart, wife of Calder Hart, and two di­rec­tors of Sun­way Con­struc­tion. "The cham­ber hopes the Uff Com­mis­sion will now be al­lowed to present its re­port to the Pres­i­dent with­out fur­ther de­lay, and that the re­port will be laid in Par­lia­ment for de­bate ex­pe­di­tious­ly, in the in­ter­est of trans­paren­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty," the TTCIC said. The TTCIC said it is im­per­a­tive for the Uff re­port to be ful­ly ven­ti­lat­ed "in the in­ter­est of the pub­lic's right to know" and as an in­di­ca­tion Gov­ern­ment is com­mit­ted to re­spon­si­ble gov­er­nance at the lev­el of all State boards.