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Louise Esther Blenman is a former Appellate Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and the current Chief Justice of Belize. [1] She is the first woman to ever be appointed to the post. On 22 November 2022, she was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the High Court and the Court of Appeal after the successful passage of the Senior ...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), [1] including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat).
Decisions of the High Court may be appealed to the Court of Appeal of the ECSC, and further to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. [6] In the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Act, it is stated that the High Court shall have the same jurisdiction as the High Court of Justice in England did in 1940. The court hears appeals from the ...
The 19 High Court judges live in the nine member nations and sit in their respective country's court of summary jurisdiction. The chief justice and the four justices of appeal are situated at the court's headquarters in Saint Lucia. Magistrate courts hear less serious cases. The Court of Appeals travels around.
In 2003, Saunders became a Justice of Appeal of the ECSC and in 2004 he became the acting Chief Justice of the ECSC, succeeding Dennis Byron. 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 ...
Chief justices of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (8 P) Pages in category "Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court justices" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The Chief Justice of Grenada is the head of the Supreme Court of Grenada which consists of the High Court with three justices and a two-tier Court of Appeal. [1]The original High Court of Grenada was replaced by the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal in 1939; both of the latter were replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme ...
Dame Janice Mesadis Pereira DBE PC (née George; formerly: George-Creque, Creque), was the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. [2] She became the first female Chief Justice and the first person from the British Virgin Islands to become Chief Justice in 2012.