1980 Licence to practise as solicitor

2.14 The author provides copies of the comments of the Solicitor General to the Appeal Brief, and his own reply to the Solicitor General's comments.

The units consist of a solicitor and two or three other staff, including a sexual assault worker.

As Solicitor General, he represented The Bahamas at several regional conferences dealing with drug trafficking and economic crimes.

The Solicitor General commented on the appeal on 21 January 2000, further to which the author replied on 25 May 2000. This was the last submission of the author to the Supreme Court.

2.16 On 29 October 1996, the author filed a motion for reconsideration against the Court of Appeal's decision. He submits a copy of the comments of the Solicitor General, and his own reply to these comments.

The agreement was also signed by the Acting Minister of Finance, Solicitor General and Acting Minister of Justice and was approved by the Vice Chairman as Acting Chairman of the NTGL, since the Chairman was away on a county visit.

He progressed through the ranks of that Office (acting as a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate for two years) and held the post of Solicitor General when he was appointed to act as a Justice of the Supreme Court in October of 1990.

The Solicitor General argued that the mere fact that the petitioner was found keeping in his company Domingo ( ) who is younger than him by 24 years ( ) raises the presumption that there was, at least, the commission of other acts of child abuse .

2.4 On 18 April 1994, the author lodged an application through a solicitor and a barrister in the proceedings for change of custody, requesting the court, in accordance with article 240, paragraph 1, of the Organization of Justice Act, to quash and declare void the actions taken since the time when the summons should have been issued.

In his comments, the Solicitor General argues that there was no need to prove the fact of actual sodomy of the alleged victim, as a different section of Act 7610, section 10 (b), article VI, penalizes any person who shall keep or have in his company a minor, 12 years or under or who is 10 years or more his junior in any public or private place, hotel ( ) .