Sentences with phrase «first appellant»
The phrase "first appellant" refers to the person who is making the first appeal in a legal case. Full definition
He said the first appellant (Metuh) had so far called a number of witnesses to testify in the fraud suit.
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Delivering the Appeal Court judgement on Friday, the Presiding Judge of Court of Appeal, Kaduna, Justice Umani Abba Aji, said the lower tribunal was right in its rulings, which nullified the election of the first appellant, Hon. Mansir Aliyu Mashi.
Justice T. S. Orji - Abadua, however, disagreed as she ruled against Sheriff, who is the first appellant in the matter.
«The learned trial judge did not find that the first appellant exercised his powers for unlawful purpose or in bad faith but bona fide.
«The exercise of powers by the first appellant under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Nigeria Police Act enjoys presumption of regularity.»
Giving the «particulars» of the said error, the lawyer argued, «The powers given to the first appellant (the IGP) under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Nigeria Police Act, Laws of the Federation 2004, sufficiently make the «Special Joint Investigation Panel» lawful and supportable under the Nigerian criminal justice system.
The first appellant in MH (Syria), DS (Afghanistan) v SSHD [2009] EWCA Civ 226 had been excluded under Art 1F (c).
What the first appellant had done for the PKK had been relatively minor and fell well short of engaging Art 1F.
In Wilson v State of Indiana,45A03 -1707-PC-1466 (2018) Correctly overrules the post conviction court for a faulty finding that the first appellant counsel was adequate as well.
From 24 December until 10 February 2005, the first appellant was represented by RJH but the second appellant instructed a different firm SWL.
The tribunal did not doubt the first appellant's own strong belief in his honesty, and it did not suggest that he believed that his conduct was dishonest by the ordinary standards of the profession.
«No honest and competent solicitor would have ignored the many warning signs that the exemplified transactions were highly suspect... [the first appellant's] conduct was so far beyond the standards to be expected of an honest and competent solicitor as to justify condemnation and it must not shrink from that conclusion that by the standards laid down for the profession it amounted to dishonesty.»
The tribunal also made a finding of dishonesty in respect of the first appellant, although he had strongly denied the allegation, and ordered him to be struck off the roll of solicitors.
Most pertinently, although the tribunal found that the first appellant had acted dishonesty by the standards of an honest and competent solicitor, it did not make any finding or even any suggestion that the first appellant was aware that by those standards he was acting dishonestly.
Accordingly, the tribunal in this case should have asked itself two questions when deciding the issue of dishonesty: first, whether the first appellant had acted dishonestly by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people; and, second, whether he had been aware that by those standards he was acting dishonestly.
The issue arose on the first appellant's appeal as to whether the tribunal had applied the correct legal test for a finding of dishonesty in proceedings.
It dismissed the appeals of the first appellant manufacturing company (G) and the second appellant local authority (K) which appealed against decisions concerning the appropriate rule of causation in mesothelioma cases involving a single defendant.