{"id":191802,"date":"2025-02-19T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-supreme-court-suspends-two-judges-for-ethical-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:50:56","slug":"liberian-supreme-court-suspends-two-judges-for-ethical-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-supreme-court-suspends-two-judges-for-ethical-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian Supreme Court Suspends Two Judges for Ethical Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Monrovia \u2014 The Supreme Court of Liberia has taken decisive action against two judges accused of serious ethical violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">On Tuesday, February 18, the Court announced the suspension of Judge Otaviou Doe of the Sinoe County Monthly and Probate Court and Magistrate Marvin Bah of the Paynesville City Court for breaches of the ethical standards expected of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>A Step Towards Accountability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Judge Doe has been suspended for one year, without pay or benefits, in response to his violations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502190328.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Supreme Court of Liberia has taken decisive action against two judges accused of serious ethical violations. On Tuesday, February 18, the Court announced the suspension of Judge Otaviou Doe of the Sinoe County Monthly and Probate Court and Magistrate Marvin Bah of the Paynesville City Court for breaches of the ethical standards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6185,20004,7031,1107,1090,257,254,9498,10452,11974],"class_list":["post-191802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-ethical","tag-judges","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-suspends","tag-violations"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}