Codeigniter:error en la consulta ORDER BY CASE

La documentación de CodeIgniter indica que las declaraciones de casos dentro de la cláusula order by no se admiten dentro de la clase Active Record. Recomendaría refactorizar la llamada SQL para que la declaración del caso sea parte de la cláusula de selección. Algo como lo siguiente debería funcionar.

$this->db->select("p.*,u.firstname, u.lastname,s.title AS industry, pt.type_name, al.length_value, CASE p.submit_to WHEN 'writer' THEN 2 WHEN 'students' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS ordered_submit_to",FALSE);
$this->db->from($this->_tbl_projects . ' as p');
$this->db->join($this->_tbl_client_details . ' as c', 'c.id = p.client_id', 'left');
$this->db->join($this->_tbl_users . ' as u', 'u.id = c.user_id', 'left');
$this->db->join($this->_tbl_project_types . ' as pt', 'pt.project_type_id = p.project_type_id', 'left');
$this->db->join($this->_tbl_specializations . ' as s', 's.specialization_id = p.specialization_id', 'left');
$this->db->join($this->_tbl_article_length . ' as al', 'al.article_length_id = p.article_length_id', 'left');
$this->db->order_by('ordered_submit_to', 'ASC');
$this->db->order_by('p.request_end_date', 'ASC');