Monthly Archive: June 2024

In Re Petitioner of Attorneys-at-Law for counsellorship (06/14/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Jun, 2024

In Re Petitioner of Attorneys-at-Law for counsellorship (06/14/2024)

The New Judiciary Law, Section 17.6, states:

“Any attorney who has been actively engaged in the practice of law for five years may submit a petition to the Supreme Court showing his moral and professional qualifications for membership in the Bar of the Supreme Court and praying admission as a counsellor of that Court. The petition shall be supported by the affidavit of at least two practicing counsellors of the Supreme Court en banc in open court. If the Supreme Court accepts the petition, the Chief Justice shall appoint a committee of at least three counsellors of the Supreme Court

NOBLE OIL vs. ZAFEER PETROLEUM (06/14/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Jun, 2024

NOBLE OIL vs. ZAFEER PETROLEUM (06/14/2024)

Our esteemed colleague, Justice Wolokolie, presiding in Chambers during the March Term of Court, A.D. 2022 delivered a ruling denying a petition for a writ of prohibition out of which this appeal grows. The appellant has asked us, the Court en banc, to review and reverse the said ruling as it fails to conform to our laws in this jurisdiction

Louise C. Ngangana and Mansfield Wrotto vs. His Honor Judge Scheapolar R. Dunbar, and Evelyn Brown Moulton (06/14/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Wolokollie / Recent Decisions

14 Jun, 2024

Louise C. Ngangana and Mansfield Wrotto vs. His Honor Judge Scheapolar R. Dunbar, and Evelyn Brown Moulton (06/14/2024)

he facts as narrated by the Majority are that the late Joseph Karbar Levee Moulton married the appellee, Evelyn Brown Moulton, on February 25, 1989, in Monrovia Liberia; that on October 4, 2004, the deceased filed an action of divorce against the appellee for incompatibility of temper before the Civil Law Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit for Montserrado County. However, he did not pursue his divorce action and the case remained pending in the Civil Law Court up until his death in 2020. It is alleged that, after filing the divorce action against the appellee in the Civil Law Court, the

Levee Moulton v. Judge Dunbar (06/14/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Kaba / Recent Decisions

14 Jun, 2024

Levee Moulton v. Judge Dunbar (06/14/2024)

The appellants, Frederica Free-Moulton, presumptive widow, and Michael D. Moulton, son of the late Joseph Karbar Levee Moulton, through their Attorneys-in-Fact, Louise C. Ngangana and Mansfield Wrotto, filed a petition for letters of administration to administer the Intestate Estate of Joseph Karbar Levee Moulton, who died on October 15, 2020, in the United States of America. On March 30, 2021, the Monthly and Probate Court for Montserrado County heard the petition and issued letters of administration

JESSE HARRIS AND MELVIN HARRIS ET AL. vs. MARY TURNING (06/14/2024) 0

2024 Opinions / Justice Gbeisay / Recent Decisions

14 Jun, 2024

JESSE HARRIS AND MELVIN HARRIS ET AL. vs. MARY TURNING (06/14/2024)

This case is before us on appeal from a ruling rendered by the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County, against the appellants Jessie Harris and Melvin Harris et al. The appellants have challenged the lower court’s ruling, averring that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the weight of the evidence adduced at trial and that the judge erred in his instructions to the jury. The appellants have now petitioned this Court to reverse the said ruling and enter the ruling that ought to have been rendered by the court below

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