Parekh v Attorney General ((SCA CL 01/2025)
Parekh v Attorney General ((SCA CL 01/2025) [2025] (Arising in CP 07/2023)(18 August 2025)) [2025] SCCA 13 (18 August 2025)
The application for recusal is refused because the appellant failed to establish any reasonable apprehension of bias; prior judicial involvement in the appellant's criminal appeal does not, without more, amount to apparent bias. The appeal against the Constitutional Court's judgment is dismissed as time-barred under Rule 18 of the Court of Appeal Rules. The Constitutional Court was not the proper forum to challenge a Court of Appeal judgment, and the application constituted an abuse of process. The appellant is bound by the acts of his counsel, and no contravention of Article 19(2)(h) was est…
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- Judicial recusal
- Apparent bias
- Jurisdiction
- Abuse of process
- Finality of judgments
- Right to silence