The Court of Appeal is set to rule on former attorney-general Anil Nandlall’s bid to overturn a magistrate’s decision to call on him to lead a defence to the charge that he fraudulently converted over $2 million in law reports to his own use while in office.
Nandlall’s lead attorney, Trinidadian Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes, spent almost an hour trying to convince acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices Rishi Persaud and Franklyn Holder that the court should overturn the decision of Magistrate Fabayo Azore that his client lead a defence and find instead that the offence against him was not proven based on the evidence provided in the lower court.
State Solicitor Nigel Hawke represented the Magistrate in the matter and among other things argued that the charge was good in law and that the magistrate should be allowed to carry out her statutory function.