Jacques Hodoul resigns as Court of Appeal judge

The Office of the President has announced that Jacques Marie Hodoul has written to President James Michel, tendering his resignation as Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal, in accordance with article 131(1)(c) of the Constitution of Seychelles.

 

Description: Mr Hodoul

Vice-President Danny Faure, in his capacity as Ag President in the absence of President Michel from the Republic, has accepted Mr Hodoul’s resignation with regret.
 
Mr Hodoul, who is aged 67, was appointed to the post of Justice of Appeal in March 2005.

In the letter accepting the resignation of Justice Hodoul, the vice-president thanked him for his services to the judiciary and to the Republic of Seychelles as a whole, for his earlier services as Minister of State in the Second Republic, and for his personal contribution to the development of Seychelles.

Mr Hodoul held various ministerial positions in the Second Republic from 1977 to 1991.

Source: NATION 8-20-11