Dudley Mosque court battle: Wait on decision as judges consider verdict
A decision over the future of a controversial scheme to build a new mosque in Dudley has been deferred for judges to consider their verdict.
Court of Appeal judges heard two days of legal argument last week in relation to land in Hall Street earmarked for the mosque.
Lords Justices Lewison and Treacy and Lady Justice Gloster have up to three months to make a decision on the case.
But it is hoped that a written judgment will be handed down before the courts rise for the Christmas break.
At the hearing, lawyers for the Muslim Association asked the court to prevent land the association has long sought to build a mosque on from being seized back by the council.
They were appealing against an earlier High Court decision in London in which a judge dismissed their challenge to the striking out their defence to an action in which Dudley Council sought to reclaim ownership of the site.
The case centres on a lease granted by the council to the association for development of the Hall Street site in 2003.
