An appeal by Guyanese attorney Rabi Sukul in the UK High Court against a decision by the Bar Standards Council to disbar him was dismissed last year, according to the decision seen by Stabroek News.
Sukul’s disbarring stemmed from his drawing up of grounds of appeal in a criminal case which he knew had no basis.
Sukul’s disbarring by the UK Bar Standards Council in February, 2014 had created embarrassment here as at the time he had been serving as a Justice of Appeal having been appointed on July 26, 2013. Questions had been raised as to what screening had been done of Sukul before his appointment to the Appeal Court as it should have been known that he
