-as hearing of appeal on appointment begins
Government appointee Carol Sooba yesterday continued to lay claim to the office of Town Clerk, while the City Council moved to get its banks to recognise its chosen replacement Royston King as the official signatory to its accounts.
The City Hall standoff continued even as Court of Appeal yesterday began hearing arguments on an appeal filed by Attorney General Anil Nandlall over acting Chief Justice Ian Chang’s ruling that Sooba’s appointment was legally defective. Since the ruling, Sooba, who had been appointed as substantive office holder, has been given an “acting” status, while a majority on the City Council, with which she has had a troubled relationship, voted to remove her earlier this week and installed King.
When the case was heard yesterday, an application for a stay of the execution of the order made by Chang,
