Monthly Archive: September 2023
Investigative Survey. A prima facie Evidence for Summary Judgment in Ejectment Cases, Speedy Trial, and Access to Justice for Land Owners …Judge Peabody
The Resident Circuit Judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court in Montserrado County, Cllr. J. Kennedy Peabody says investigative survey is a prima facie evidence for summary judgment in ejectment cases, speedy trial, and access to justice for land owners.
Judge Peabody speaking on Monday, September 18, 2023, during the opening of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court for the September Term of Court A. D. 2023, said accordingly, the significance of using the survey report as prima facie evidence in ejectment cases is a sine qua non to clearing of the docket of the courts, as well as for the speedy disposition of ejectment cases
ODESCO TARPEH VS. ERIC VAYE (09/13/2023)
The facts as culled from the records in this case are that, on August 21, 2023, the appellant Odesco Tarpeh, a registered voter of Electoral District #5, Montserrado County, filed a letter of complaint to the National Elections Commission (NEC) objecting to the eligibility of the Co-appellee Eric Vaye to contest as representative candidate in Electoral District #5, Montserrado County. In the complaint, the appellant alleged that Co-appellee Eric Vaye is ineligible to contest because he was convicted for the commission of a felony and was sentenced to a prison term of five (5) years, and that he had not served the prison sentence levied against him.
On August 17, 2023, the Liberia First Movement Party, by and thru its Chairman, Layee Togba, filed a motion to join, praying the NEC to join it as a party in the case because it is qualified and suitable to be an objector to ensure that a convict who has not served his prison term be disallowed from contesting for an elected position in Liberia.
HUSSEIN SEIMAVULA vs BINTU MANSARAY-SUPREME COURT FINAL (09/06/2023)
As part of the democratic sphere of Liberia, the Liberian Constitution, adopted by the citizens of Liberia at a Referendum in 1984 and which became effective on January 6, 1986, with the inauguration of the new civilian constitutional government, provides at Chapter VIII, Article 83(a) that the Liberian nation-state will conduct every six (6) years, throughout the Republic, elections for the “President, Vice-President, members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives”, same to be carried out “on the second Tuesday in October of each election year.” In effectuation of this mandate, the Constitution further provides, at Chapter X, Article 89(b) that there shall be an Elections Commission which shall be charged with the responsibility of conducting the said elections, and it vest in the Legislature the prerogative to enact the Elections Laws to govern the electoral process and the conduct of the said elections
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