Acting Registrar complies with court’s ruling

by Linda Straker

• Two High Court Judges ordered that Wardally-Beaumont be struck off
• Wardally-Beaumont guilty of professional misconduct
• Notice placed in 25 November 2022 edition of Government Gazette

Within 10 days of two Judges’ ruling that Brenda Wardally-Beaumont’s name be struck from the list of lawyers who can operate in Grenada, Xiomara Cherebim-Forsyth, who is the Acting Registrar, has placed the notice in the Government Gazette.

“By this Notice, the Court Office hereby informs that the Registrar has made the relevant alteration in the Roll of Attorneys with respect to Brenda Wardally-Beaumont, pursuant to Section 30 (1) of the Legal Profession Act No. 25 of 2011,” said a Notice in the 25 November 2022 edition. “This action results from the decision of the Supreme Court of Grenada in its capacity as a disciplinary tribunal, rendered on the 15th day of November 2022, to be enforced with immediate effect. Consequently, the general public is informed that the above-named party is unable to transact any business in the capacity as an attorney-at-law, as of the 15th November 2022.”

On 15 November 2022, two High Court Judges ordered that Wardally-Beaumont, who is 71 years of age, be struck off the court’s roll of attorneys-at-law in Grenada.

Justices Raulston L A Glasgow and Victoria Charles-Clarke agreed that Wardally-Beaumont was guilty of professional misconduct in the discharge of her duties as an attorney-at-law when she failed to return the sum of EC$304,419.99 which she held in trust for her client, Joel Ganpot.

According to the background of the matter, Wardally-Beaumont, in or about April  1999, represented  Ganpot in matrimonial proceedings. In April 2005, Wardally-Beaumont,  as the attorney for  Ganpot, received the sum of $304,419.99 on his behalf which represented monies he was entitled to as part of the settlement of the ancillary relief proceedings, but she failed to pass on the money.

Ganpot took legal action and though a settlement was reached between the parties, the lawyer failed to fully comply with that legal resolution. This led to further legal proceedings from Ganpot, resulting in the disbarring of Wardally-Beaumont in Grenada.