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* Speight v Gaunt ( 1882 ) 22 Ch D 727, 739, Sir George Jessel MR, ' It seems to me that on general principles a trustee ought to conduct the business of the trust in the same manner that an ordinary prudent man of business would conduct his own, and that beyond that there is no liability or obligation on the trustee.
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* Speight v Gaunt ( 1883 ) 9 App Cas 1
Speight and 22
On 22 April 2005, Tanaburenisau pleaded guilty to charges of having taken an illegal oath of office as a member of the rebel Taukei Cabinet of George Speight on 20 May 2000, while the Fiji coup of 2000 was at its height.
Samisoni Tikoinasau ( sometimes known as Sam Speight, Jr .), a Cabinet Minister and elder brother of imprisoned coup frontman George Speight, spoke out on 22 December 2005 to call for a halt to investigations into the planning and financing of the coup.
Speight and D
On May 17, 1843, Judge W. R. D. Speight, who was parish judge, I. W. Eason, S. S. Eason and G. W. Thompson purchased and gave to Sabine Parish of land.
William R. D. Speight was named as the parish judge, and he created seven wards.
Jesse Speight ( D )
The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal II-A, were Michael A. Musmanno ( presiding judge ) from Pennsylvania, John J. Speight from Alabama, and Richard D. Dixon from North Carolina.
* Speight, Martin R., Mark D. Hunter and Allan D. Watt ( 1999 ).
Speight and Sir
Announcing that he had deposed both the government and the President, Speight swore in serving ruling government member, Timoci Silatolu as Prime Minister by Ratu Jope Seniloli, whom he proclaimed President in place of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
For 56 days Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his cabinet, along with many parliamentarians and their staff, were held as hostages while Speight attempted to negotiate with the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who denounced the coup and declared a state of emergency.
In 2009 she was part of the three-strong disciplinary panel of senior NEC members, with Cath Speight and Sir Jeremy Beecham, for MPs referred for consideration over the parliamentary expenses scandal .< ref >
For 56 days, Prime Minister Chaudhry and most of his cabinet, along with many Parliamentarians and their staff, were held as hostages while Speight attempted to negotiate with the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who denounced the coup and declared a state of emergency, and with the military administration which took office on 29 May.
This he blamed for the actions of rebel leader George Speight, who led the putsch against the elected government of Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and called for the resignation of the President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands.
Speight and George
George Speight ( born 1957 ), occasionally known as Ilikimi Naitini, was the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, in which he kidnapped thirty-six government officials and held them from May 19, 2000 to July 13, 2000.
Fifteen soldiers and two of their officers defected to the rebels and George Speight built up a strong private army.
George Speight hails from Naivicula, about ten kilometers from Korovou in Tailevu Province.
Ilikini Naitini ( George Speight ) and now by the Hon.
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Shane was born as George Frederick Speight in Thrybergh, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
Following a historic election in which he defeated the long-time former leader, Sitiveni Rabuka, the former trade union leader became Fiji's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister on 19 May 1999, but exactly one year later, on 19 May 2000 he and most of his Cabinet were taken hostage by coup leader George Speight, in the Fiji coup of 2000.
While her husband and son, Rajendra were still in captivity, she announced on 18 yJune 2000 that she had decided to forgive George Speight.
Despite widespread fears of civil unrest, the takeover of the parliamentary complex by George Speight on 19 May 2000 ( one year to the day since Chaudhry's appointment as Prime Minister ) happened without warning.
On 19 May 2000, Chaudhry's government was overthrown in a putsch led by George Speight, a businessman whom the Labour government had fired from management of Fiji's lucrative pine industry.
Gunmen led by George Speight forced their way into Parliament and kidnapped the Prime Minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, several Cabinet ministers, and a number of parliamentarians.
He alleged that they took George Speight to Parliament, and that their senior officers supplied them with weapons, blankets, and food.
George Speight, a commoner ( i. e., one of non-chiefly ancestry ) who led the 2000 putsch accused Mara of selling the country out to Indo-Fijians, and of working to keep power in the hands of a coalition of Fijian chiefs and Indo-Fijian businessmen, at the expense of Fijian commoners.
* A group led by George Speight takes Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and others hostage in the Parliament building of Fiji in Suva.
A civilian putsch instigated by George Speight led to another constitutional upheaval in 2000.
It was also suspended for a period following the 2000 coup d ' état led by George Speight.
The present constitution was abrogated by Commodore Frank Bainimarama, who organized a counter-coup to neutralize a civilian coup d ' état led by George Speight, and subsequently formed an Interim Military Government.
The authorizing of only one person ( namely, the Chief Justice ) is designed to forestall legal recognition of any Presidential or Vice-Presidential oath administered illegally, as happened in the 2000 coup, when Ratu Jope Seniloli ( an accomplice of the coup's chief instigator, George Speight ) was administered the Presidential oath of office by someone other than the Chief Justice.
This happened during the 2000 coup, when Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry was kidnapped and held hostage by gunmen working for the chief insurrectionist, George Speight.
The Prerogative of Mercy was exercised by President Ratu Josefa Iloilo in 2001, when he commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on George Speight, who was convicted of treason for his leading role in the 2000 coup.
During the coup of 2000 in which most members of the government were kidnapped by George Speight, Baba's courage as one of the hostages earned him considerable public respect.
Speight and on
Created by Johnny Speight, Till Death Us Do Part centred on the East End Garnett family, led by patriarch Alf Garnett ( Warren Mitchell ), a reactionary white working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist views.
The character Alf Garnett became a well known character in British culture, and Mitchell played him on stage and television up until 1998, when Speight died.
In a demonstration of Speight's satirical skills-after a successful libel action brought against Speight by Mary Whitehouse-he created an episode where Alf Garnett was seen as a fan of Whitehouse first broadcast on 27 February 1967.
In interviews, Speight explained he had originally based Alf on his father, an East End docker who was staunchly reactionary and held " unenlightened " attitudes toward black people.
The house seen in the opening and closing titles to the 1960s episodes was located on Garnet Street in Wapping ( from where writer Johnny Speight took the Garnett family name ) and this terrace was demolished in the 1980s.
At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.
The first series ( five episodes, all written by Johnny Speight ) premiered on 29 January 1960 and were an immediate hit, establishing ' Eric and Hat ' as one of Britain's most popular and enduring comedy partnerships.
In 1969 Sykes co-starred with Spike Milligan in the ill-fated television sit-com Curry & Chips, a satire on racial prejudice created and written by Johnny Speight and made for London Weekend Television.
Speight thus found sizeable number of sympathizers when he launched his putsch on 19 May.
Laisenia Qarase had abolished the death sentence in the House of Representatives on the day that Speight was sentenced.
Speight started serving his sentence on Nukulau Island where he had been living out his exile.
Following the decision of the Military government to close the Nukulau facility Speight was transferred on 20 December 2006.
The Fiji Village news service reported on 29 January 2006 that Speight and his associates had indicated his willingness to face the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission and tell all they know about the alleged planning, financing, and execution of the coup.
The latest information revealed by some of the CRW troops arrested with Speight suggest that Bainimarama may have been the " real " coup leader after giving the go-ahead at the last security council meeting on Friday May 12, 2000 at Valelevu.
After opposition from Speight, he withdraws the nomination on 31 May.
Speight was one of many writing talents on that series which also included the star Sykes, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
In 1965, Speight wrote a BBC TV pilot which became the 1966 series Till Death Us Do Part featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett, a reactionary Conservative-voting working class man with a chip on his shoulder and an angry word on everything.
In 1998, Speight died of pancreatic cancer, aged 78, and LWT put forward a series of specials featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett, giving his thoughts on a variety of subjects.
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