Tagged: IN RE

The walls of the sacred Chambers of the Supreme Court reverberated with the recitals of sections 17.1 and 17.6 of the New Judiciary Law Revised Code in a four-day sitting of this Court to examine and pass on the petitions of attorneys-at-law who petitioned the Court to become members of its Bar. Mr. Chief Justice Francis

The genesis of this case reveals that while serving as Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission, (LACC) sometime in 2020, Cllr. A. Ndubuisi Nwabudike was nominated by the President of Liberia as Chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC).

On March 16, 2016, the District Commissioner of Zarflahn District, Rivercess County, Honorable Borbor Y. Boeyon, filed with the Office of the Chief Justice a complaint against His Honor Peter G. Massey, Debt Court Judge, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Rivercess County.

We are called upon to determine two pivotal issues in this case, they are:

1. Whether or not the petitioner in this case has the legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of Sections 22.1 and 22.2 of the Aliens and Nationality Law of Liberia.

2. Whether or not Section 22.2 of the Aliens and Nationality Law violate any provision of the1986 Constitution and, as such, was repealed by Article 95(a) of the 1986 Constitution.