ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE GAMBIA V. PIERRE SARR N’JIE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE GAMBIA – Appellant

AND

PIERRE SARR N’JIE – Respondent

ORIGINATING COURT

THE WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL.

ISSUES FROM THE CAUSE(S) OF ACTION

ETHICS – LEGAL PRACTITIONER: Barrister – Professional misconduct – Disciplinary power of judge to strike name of legal practitioner off the Roll- Exercise by deputy – Whether a judicial power – Gambia.

ETHICS:- Legal practitioner – Professional misconduct – Disciplinary power of judge to suspend or strike off – Supreme Court Ordinance (Laws of the Gambia, 1955, c. 5), s. 7 – Rules of the Supreme Court of the Gambia, 1928, Ord. IX, r. 7.

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE ISSUES

APPEAL:- When a person not party to a suit may be allowed to appeal decision arising from that suit – power of the Attorney General thereto

APPEAL:- West Africa – Gambia – Appeal to Privy Council – Competency – Locus standi of Attorney-General – “Person aggrieved” – West African (Appeal to Privy Council) Order in Council, 1949, s. 31.

COURT:- Distinction between administrative and judicial powers of a judge – How conferred – How appealed – Nature of disciplinary proceedings superintended by a judge