governing the impeachment proceedings at the House, but the Applicant’s involvement in the trial have given him the needed information in adequate preparation of his defence at the trial. So throughout the process, there were no guidelines to help the Applicant to put in place adequate preparation for his defence of the accusations brought against him. 101. The Court notes that during the trial of the instant suit, the panel inquired from the Respondent whether there were extant rules of impeachment used in the Applicant’s case. Upon its affirmative answer, the Respondent on the 13 July 2020, filed at the Registry of the Court Rules and Procedures purportedly adopted by the Liberian Legislature on impeachment trials. Among the documents filed is the purported rules used in the Applicant’s case titled “RESOLUTION SETTING OUT THE RULES TO GOVERN THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT, JUDGES OF SUBORDINATE COURTS, AND ALL CIVIL OFFICERS TO WHICH IMPEACHMENT MAY APPLY”. 102. The requirement of the Section 43 of the Respondent’s Constitution is law passed by the Legislature of the Respondent and not a resolution passed after the Housed is seized with the case. The Court, therefore cannot rely on the said Resolution. 103. Where the procedural laws were not well defined for the Applicant to know what constituted the procedure to be followed in his trial, it was difficult, if not impossible for an objective observer to decipher when the trial 40

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