ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Outstanding prison lawyer George Prime says he is not going to be interesting the choice of the Common Authorized Council to droop him from working towards legislation in Grenada for the subsequent six months.
“My lawyer has really useful I attraction, however I can’t be interesting…my present issues will both be adjourned, or I’ll determine handy over paperwork to different attorneys,” Prime mentioned as he confirmed the ruling.
George Prime (File Photograph)
The Common Authorized Council determined to droop the previous Justice of the Peace earlier within the week after he was present in breach of the Authorized Occupation Act, which regulates the authorized occupation, for the qualification, enrolment, and self-discipline of its members and associated issues.
The Council additionally offers with regulating and upholding requirements {of professional} conduct.
Prime is amongst a number of attorneys about whom the Council has acquired complaints. Two attorneys have already been debarred.
Prime’s matter earlier than the Council includes the non-transfer of funds to a shopper following the sale of a property in Carriacou. It dates again to 2019 and was heard in 2021.
An legal professional or lawyer, in keeping with the laws, can have his working towards certificates suspended if she or he is an undischarged bankrupt, or there may be in pressure towards him, a receiving order in chapter;
The legal professional may also be suspended if they’re declared an individual of unsound thoughts by a certified medical practitioner and fails to pay any superb, compensation, reimbursement, or prices ordered by the Council to be paid by him, amongst different measures.
In the course of the suspension interval, the legal professional is barred from working towards legislation and will, on abstract conviction, be fined a complete of EC$10,000 (One EC greenback=US$0.37 cents).
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