MONROVIA – The Supreme Court of Liberia has denied Atty. Isaac Jackson’s petition for a prohibition on his removal as Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IOM), thereby, giving the government to greenlight to recall him.
Atty. Jackson has, at the same time, been suspended from the practice of law for a year due to what the Bench considered as invectives by him on the Chief Justice during the course of the hearing.
He, has therefore, been ordered by the Bench to render an apology which should be published in three times in two local dailies, else he would risk permanent disbarment.
In regards to his argument that his position at the IOM is tenure position, the Court ruled that the Liberia Maritime Authority‘s Act of 2010, indicates that the position of Permanent Representative to the IMO is not equivalent to a Deputy Commissioner which is a tenure position.
The Supreme Court’s September 4, 2020 opinion means President George Weah was not in error to appoint Moses Brown as Liberian new Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization in London.
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