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The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ or CCtJ; Dutch: Caribisch Hof van Justitie; French: Cour Caribéenne de Justice[1]) is the judicial institution of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Established in 2005, it is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribbean Court of Justice has two jurisdictions: an original jurisdiction and an ...
Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron (born 4 July 1943) [1] is a former president of the Caribbean Court of Justice.He also serves as President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, and is former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
As Chief Justice, he was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2005, he was appointed as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice and stepped down from the ECSC.
In May 2015, the Jamaican House of Representatives approved, with the necessary two-thirds majority, bills to end legal appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and make the Caribbean Court of Justice Jamaica's final court of appeal. The reform will be debated by the Jamaican Senate; however, the government needed the support of ...
The Court of Appeal Caribbean Court of Justice, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2005 in cases originating from Barbados. The Constitution places the Caribbean Court of Justice at the pinnacle of the Barbadian judicial system. The Court has two types of jurisdictions: appellate jurisdiction and original jurisdiction ...
David J. Hayton (b. 1944) is a British barrister and former judge on the Caribbean Court of Justice. He holds an LLB and LLD from Newcastle University, and MA and LLD from the University of Cambridge. [1] From 1973 to 1987 he was a Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1987 to 2005 he worked in the School of Law, King's College London and ...
De la Bastide was Crown Counsel in the office of the Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago from 1961 till 1963. In 1975, he became a Queen's Counsel at the age of 38. He went on to serve as an Independent Senator from 1976 to 1981 in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. He was president of the Law Association from 1987 until 1990 prior to his ...
Jacob Wit (24 December 1952 – 16 January 2024) was a Dutch jurist who was justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice, [1] and located in Trinidad and Tobago. [2] Beginning in 2010 he also served as the President of the Constitutional Court of Sint Maarten, [3] and was once a Judge of the Rotterdam District Court and the Common Court of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.