SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY FINDS IT TO BE INTERFERENCE AGAINST THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE COURT TO REQUIRE PROOF OF HOW LAWYERS ARE BEING FINANCED
Written by Fuze Social Team on September 23, 2021
Speaker of the House of Assembly Julian Willock finds it to be interference against the Legislature where he was asked by the courts recently to prove how their lawyers are being financed.
Willock and his lawyers Silk Legal brought the matter to court where it was said that the COI’s lawyers were practicing here illegally as they have not been called to the local bar.
The Speaker lost that matter in court.
In a statement at the start of this morning’s House of Assembly sitting, the Speaker said there has been much public discourse within the last week about a matter that is in the court, as to who is to pay the legal costs for the withdrawal of an injunction brought before the courts in his official capacity as Speaker to prevent the three Attorneys attached to the Commission of Inquiry from carrying out duties in relation to their appointments until and unless their appointment is deemed to be valid, in keeping with the Legal Professions Act of 2015.
The Speaker told the House, never in recent jurisprudence in the Region or the United Kingdom has there been an issue when a plaintiff brings a matter to court, loses or withdraws, that the case goes to a legal or public debate about who will take up the cost.
He said that furthermore, it is highly unusual for the Court to require a party to prove how their lawyers are being financed.
