Justice of Appeal Sukul asked to resign following UK disbarment

Justice Rabi Sukul taking the oath of office before President Donald Ramotar last July (Stabroek News file photo)

Justice Rabi Sukul has been disbarred from the United Kingdom Bar after it was discovered that he intentionally misled his client by drafting false grounds of appeal in a drugs related case and he has since been asked to immediately resign as a judge of Guyana’s Court of Appeal.

Sukul’s troubles have seemingly caught the local judiciary off guard. He was sworn in as a Court of Appeal judge by President Donald Ramotar last year July.

According to the Law Society Gazette, the London bar’s disciplinary tribunal heard that Sukul, of