The aviation services company, Menzies Aviation (Namibia), has filed a new case in the Windhoek High Court in an attempt to reverse its eviction from Hosea Kutako International Airport.
In its latest application at the court, which was filed on Tuesday afternoon, the company is asking the court to order that the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) and its competitor Paragon Investment Holdings may not have it evicted from the airport without a valid and lawful warrant of eviction or court order obtained after 8 August this year, or before a notice period of 12 months for its eviction has passed, or before a three-month notice period for a change in airport charges in terms of the Airports Company Act has passed.
Paragon took over the provision of ground-handling services at Hosea Kutako International Airport on Saturday (19 August), after NAC had Menzies evicted from the airport.
Menzies and NAC have been engaged in a legal battle for more than a year, after NAC decided in December 2021 to award a contract for the provision of ground-handling services at the airport to Paragon.
A High Court judge declared near the end of June last year that Menzies’ contract for the provision of ground handling services at the airport would terminate on 30 June last year and authorised the eviction of Menzies from the airport.
Menzies appealed to the Supreme Court against that judgement. Its appeal was dismissed in June this year, but the company has tried to cling on at the airport since then, while arguing that the High Court’s order for its eviction has been overtaken by subsequent events.
Menzies also filed an urgent application in the High Court on Saturday. In that case, in which a judgement is expected to be delivered on 1 September, the company is asking the court to order that NAC should restore its possession of the premises it was using at the airport before its eviction.
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