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The Court of Appeal is the highest appellate court in Jamaica; it is superior to the Supreme Court. [1] [2] [4] The Court is composed of a President and six other Judges.The Chief Justice is also a judge ex officio of the Court of Appeal, but participates only when asked to do so by the President.
The chief justice of Jamaica is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica. This article lists chief justices from before and after Jamaica's independence in 1962.
On 7 July 1997, McCalla was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court. [1] [3] She stood down from that appointment on 10 April 2006, when she was appointed a Judge of Appeal. [1] In 2006, she was also an Acting Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. [2] On 27 June 2007, McCalla was appointed the Chief Justice of Jamaica.
Judges of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court; Deputy President of the Senate; Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives; Members of the Senate; Members of the House of Representatives; Mayors and Chairmen of Parish Councils (except on municipal occasions, when they take precedence immediately after the Prime Minister)
Order of Jamaica (2018) Bryan Sykes OJ is a Jamaican judge. ... The Supreme Court This page was last edited on 26 September 2024, at 08:44 (UTC). Text is ...
The Special Constabulary Force Association (SCFA) was seeking to challenge the merger of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). However, on 1 May 2014 Justice Bertram Morrison of the Supreme Court has struck out the application. The decision meant that the Government can go ahead with the merger.
The judiciary also is modelled on the British system. The Court of Appeal is the highest appellate court in Jamaica. Under certain circumstances, cases may be appealed to Britain's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Jamaica's parishes have elected councils that exercise limited powers of local government.
Kirk Brian Anderson (born 20 April 1967) is a Caribbean jurist. [1] A dual national of Jamaica and Belize, he has experience both before the bench and behind it, in Belize as Director of Public Prosecutions and in Jamaica as a justice of the Supreme Court, and in both countries as a lawyer in private practice.