Court Opinion

ID: 9854500
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:08:25.75102+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:07.032754
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree but concur specially because the appeal suffers from another threshold infirmity which ought to be noticed so as not allow the implication that the order was directly appealable. The order appealed from, whether it be in law the order of March 5 or that of May 29, is not a final order from which a direct appeal will lie. OCGA § 5-6-34 (a). The procedure provided in subsection (b) was not followed here. Nor has it been shown that the certificate and application avenue for interlocutory appeals inadequately protects the right of parties to review of a decision affecting their choice of counsel. To point in this case, the trial judge’s careful and lengthy consideration of the question, twice, bears witness to that court’s recognition of the magnitude of the ruling.
I am authorized to state that Presiding Judge Banke and Judge Carley join in this special concurrence.