King’s Coun­sel Vin­cent Nel­son’s on­ly hope of set­ting aside his con­vic­tions for his par­tic­i­pa­tion in an al­leged le­gal fee kick­back scheme now rests with the Privy Coun­cil.

But Nel­son will have to first con­vince the British Law Lords to al­low him to mount a fi­nal ap­peal on the is­sue be­fore it (an ap­peal) is pos­si­bly heard, as he was de­nied con­di­tion­al leave by the Court of Ap­peal yes­ter­day.

In a de­ci­sion yes­ter­day morn­ing, Ap­pel­late Judges Nolan Bereaux, James Aboud and Ricky Rahim stat­ed that there was no is­sue that Nel­son could raise over breach­es of his con­sti­tu­tion­al rights stem­ming from the de­ci­sion of the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) to pros­e­cute him along­side for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen.