Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Vallejos and Daniel Domingo appealed their cases to the Court of Final Appeal, and were respectively assigned the case numbers FACV 19 and 20/2012. They would be represented before the CFA by Michael Fordham; David Pannick continued to represent the Government. Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma rejected a further application for joinder by eight-year-old Liang Wing-ki, the Hong Kong-born daughter of mainland parents, whose next friend, mother Li Yinxian, filed suit on her behalf. Philip Dykes, for the applicant, argued that because Vallejos and Domingo's case would touch on issues of interpretation of the Basic Law under Article 158, Liang's interests would also be affected. In rejecting Liang's application, Ma stated: "We feel that the points you seem to argue are adequately covered and will be adequately covered". Liang and other Hong Kong-born children like her were ruled to be entitled to the right of abode in Hong Kong in the 2001 case "Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen".
Elson Kaseke
Kaseke was named to the position of Solicitor-General in 2001, replacing Edwin Flowers who had been acting in the post since the transfer of Gian Ghandi. In 2005, he represented the government in its failed attempt to extradite Andrew and Floyd Brown to the United States on narcotics charges; Dean Barrow represented the defendants. His term was also marred by a scandal over his holdings in BELIPO (Belize Intellectual Property Office), a private company which had a revenue sharing agreement with the Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry. In May 2006, AG Francis Fonseca announced that Kaseke's contract as SG would not be renewed. In media interviews, Fonseca stated that Kaseke "felt it was time for him to move on ... and we felt that it was an opportunity for us to have a new beginning. Over the next few months he continued to represent the government of Belize in existing cases, such as the unsuccessful application for a stay of execution of the Supreme Court ruling that restored Jeffrey Prosser to his seat on the board of Belize Telecommunications.