PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Justice Jacob Wit has retired from the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court docket of Justice (CCJ) attributable to ailing well being, in response to a press release issued by the Court docket.
Justice Wit was a member of the Court docket’s inaugural Bench in 2005 and served for 18 years; “nevertheless, since October 2023, his well being has been impacted,” the CCJ stated.
“This can be a unhappy day for the Court docket, particularly since Justice Wit and I shaped a part of the inaugural Bench of the Court docket. He was the lone Civil Legislation Choose on the present CCJ Bench with wealthy expertise in navy, administrative, constitutional, and worldwide human rights legislation,” stated CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders.
“His involvement with the CCJ Academy for Legislation and his position in coordinating the Academy’s most up-to-date Biennial Convention and Regional City Corridor specializing in crime are acknowledged and deeply appreciated. I’ll actually miss him and his contributions,” he added.
The CCJ, established in 2001 to exchange the London-based Privy Council because the area’s closing and highest Court docket, stated it’s hopeful that Justice Wit “ recovers and enjoys his retirement, after an extended and meritorious profession which spanned shut to 5 many years.”
Justice Wit, 71, was born in Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Vrije Universiteit (Free College) of Amsterdam with a Grasp of Legal guidelines diploma with honors in 1977 earlier than becoming a member of the Royal Dutch Navy.
Justice Wit was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands as Deputy Choose of the Rotterdam District Court docket in January 1984, Choose of the Rotterdam District Court docket in March 1985, and Choose of the Joint Court docket of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba on 1 October 1986. This Court docket consists of a number of Courts of First Occasion in Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and a Court docket of Attraction.
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