Adrian Saunders chosen as next CCJ president

 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Honourable Justice Adrian Dudley Saunders, a citizen of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has been appointed as the incoming president of the Caribbean Court of Justice, with effect July 4.

The Heads of Government of CARICOM made the appointment at its last meeting, held in Haiti Feb. 26-27, acting on the nomination of the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commisison (RJLSC). The RJLSC had selected Justice Saunders after a competitive merit-based process.

President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the Right Honourable Sir Dennis Byron, said, “Justice Saunders’ appointment to be the incoming president of the court has been greeted with pleasure by the entire bench of the court. He has served with distinction and has exhibited qualities of excellence, sharp intellect, strong moral values, leadership skills and encyclopaedic knowledge for the law tempered by things Caribbean.”

Justice Saunders is chairman of the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO). He is also the course director of the Halifax-based Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. Saunders co-authored the book, Fundamentals of Caribbean Constitutional Law. He holds a bachelor of laws degree, earned at the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) in 1975, and the Legal Education Certificate of the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago in 1977. He was called to the bar of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in that same year.

Saunders remained in private practice as a barrister and solicitor from 1977 until 1996, when he was appointed as a judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). In 2003, he was confirmed as a justice of appeal of the ECSC and one year later he was appointed to act as chief justice of that court. Saunders was appointed a judge of the CCJ in 2005.

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2 Comments

  1. ??
    March 13, 2018

    Wait!! Should we thank Cabral Douglas for that? Just asking before I comment further…..

  2. Peeps with ears close 2 the ground
    March 13, 2018

    Dear Barbs,
    Peeps with their ears to the ground would like 3 know if you are related.

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