After the police released the appellant from arrest without charge, two newspapers applied to lift a Crown Court order postponing his identification in contemporaneous reports of the criminal trial on the ground that there were now no «pending or imminent»
proceedings against the appellant that might be prejudiced by publication.
Due to the regulatory scheme and the Visitors of the Inns of Court's jurisdiction, as applicable to the disciplinary
proceedings against the Appellant, the Supreme Court concluded that the Respondent's part in the proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal and those before the Visitors should be regarded as part of a single continuing act.
Not exact matches
Saraki said the appellate court erred in law when it affirmed the competence of the
proceedings of the CCT, which sat on the
appellant's case with only two members as
against the three provided for in the provisions of Paragraph 15 (1) of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.
At the hearing of the appeal, Daudu faulted the judgment of the appeal court on among other grounds that it erroneously affirmed the competence of the
proceedings of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, which sat on the
appellant's case with only two members as
against the three provided for in the provisions of Paragraph 15 (1) of the Fifth Schedule to the 1999 Constitution.
The
proceedings arose out of a possession order obtained
against the second
appellant and an anti-social behaviour injunction
against both
appellants, in December 2004, which they appealed.
Further (amongst other findings), the fact that the
appellants sought the information in connection with court
proceedings then ongoing in the Bahamian courts
against the trustee was not a «proper purpose» for making a SAR.
8.12.3 Provided the Registrar and the other parties have been notified in writing, an application by an
appellant for public funding or legal aid suspends the commencement of
proceedings and the time limits in rules 11 and 19 are extended until 28 days after the determination of the application for public funding or legal aid (including any appeals
against a refusal of funding).
The Court determined that the
Appellant's challenge was to the conduct of the Respondent in bringing and pursuing disciplinary
proceedings against her, not to an alleged state of affairs in which BME lawyers were more likely to be the subject of such
proceedings.
In this case the first and second
appellant appealed
against a decision refusing them permission to instruct independent experts in care
proceedings regarding their child.
Notable mandates: Counsel for the successful
appellant at the Supreme Court of Canada in Housen v. Nikolaisen; counsel for Potash Corp. in matters relating to the expansion of its Rocanville mine; ongoing work in the restructuring of the pork industry, including CCAA
proceedings and receiverships; acted for Northland Power in the development and construction of two gas - powered generating plants; represented Great Western Diamonds in its recent acquisition of the Brazilian operations of Santa Elina Mines; appointed as counsel by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to argue on a reference
against the constitutionality of proposed legislation permitting marriage commissioners to refuse to perform same sex marriages.
As a result, it was open to the
appellant to await the outcome of the criminal
proceedings against him before finally deciding whether to bring his action, regardless of when he first formed the intention to sue.