Lawyer warned: Stop interjecting

A JUDGE warned a defence lawyer in court yesterday he could be charged with contempt if he kept on interjecting a state lawyer’s submission.
Justice Oagile Key Dingake advised lawyer Robert Leo several times to let state lawyer Milfred Wangatau complete his submission.
He said Leo could have his chance to present his arguments after Wangatau.
The case before Justice Dingake was in regards to an application by Finance Secretary Dr Ken Ngangan to set aside an earlier court order to pay a landowner group, Tika and Associates, the sum of K4,456,971.98.
The consent order was handed down on Oct 11 last year.
Ngangan submitted through lawyer Wangatau that it be set aside because of “procedural irregularities”, in that he did not instruct former Acting Solicitor-General Faith Barton-Keene to consent to the payment of the amount.
Leo, representing Tika and Associates, argued that the National Court lacked the jurisdiction to set aside the order.
He suggested that the proper way to deal with the matter was to file an appeal.
Leo was told to sit down.
Justice Dingake will hand down a decision later.