CJ Egonda-Ntende’s term ends, successor to be named in due course |03 September 2014

A new Chief Justice will be appointed by the Constitutional Appointments Authority now that his Lordship Fredrick Egonda-Ntende has completed his five-year term of service.

The office of the Registrar of the Judiciary of Seychelles said this in a press release yesterday,
The release adds that His Lordship Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, who completed his five-year term here on August 20, 2014, was recently appointed to the prestigious position of Justice of the Court of Appeal in his native Uganda, and has now returned to take up that post.
 
Justice Durai Karunakaran, the most senior judge of the Supreme Court of Seychelles, has been appointed Acting Chief Justice.  
 
According to the registrar there is accordingly no disruption to the ordinary business of the judiciary as cases are still being taken and the preparation for the re-opening of the Supreme Court is ongoing.