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Special Select Committee members must ‘search their conscience’- Willock
FISH BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Hon Julian Willock says the members of the Special Select Committee of the HoA who were tasked with deciding whether or not he should be left to pay legal fees out of pocket due to a discontinued Injunction against three Commission of Inquiry (CoI) lawyers, need to check their conscience and that their decision is misguided.
Speaker only wanted CoI lawyers to follow VI’s law - Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Radio Talk show host, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has defended the post of Speaker held by Hon Julian Willock under the constitution of the Virgin Islands (VI) as one who ultimately has a right to defend the laws of the territory as the presiding head of the House of Assembly.
Judge ordering Speaker to pay ‘is a judicial overreach’– Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- At least one clergyman has spoken out against the decision by Acting Commercial Court Judge Adrian Jack’s ruling that Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon Julian Willock should pay legal fees out of his own pocket despite filing an injunction in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Assembly.
Petition calls for Speaker to pay court bill out of pocket
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Even though the Speaker of the Virgin Islands had legitimate reasons to challenge the three attorney generals working in the Virgin Islands for the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) and was seen as the Virgin Islands standing up for itself and making the statement that no one is above the law, some members of the public are having none of it.
A Law Officer who holds or acts in AG, DPP or Magistracy is deemed a Legal Practitioner
Dear Editor,
I feel compelled as a resident in this Territory to join in the chorus as to whether the three Lawyers from the CoI are in breach of the Legal Profession Act 2015.
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