PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has appointed Jamaican-born jurist Winston Anderson to behave as President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Courtroom of Justice (CCJ).
Mitchell, an legal professional, who can be the chairman of the CARICOM grouping, made the appointment underneath the settlement establishing the CCJ in 2001.
Beneath the settlement, the capabilities of the President of the Courtroom “shall be carried out by the Choose of the Courtroom who’s most senior in accordance with the date of this appointment and he shall be appointed by letter underneath the hand of the Chairman in the interim of the Convention.”
CCJ President, Justice Adrian Saunders, shall be on depart till September 16, 2024, and the CCJ in a press release stated that Justice Anderson, having been appointed a choose in June 2010, is presently probably the most senior choose of the Courtroom.
Justice Andersons holds a number of international and regional appointments together with (i) founding Member of the Worldwide Advisory Council of the United Nations Setting Program (UNEP) (2012); (ii) Member of the Advisory Fee on Environmental Legislation to the Group of American States (OAS) (2013); (iii) Member of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Group of Consultants (2014); (iv) Chairman of the Disciplinary and Ethics Committees of Cricket West Indies (CWI) (2017); (v) Member of the Worldwide Cricket Council Code of Conduct Fee (ICC) (2018); (vi) Member of the ICC Dispute Decision Committee (ICC/DRC) (renewed on 1 January 2023) and (vi) choose on the worldwide Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) (from 2021).
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In 2022, Justice Anderson was accorded the sign honor of being appointed Presiding Choose and Chairman of the apex Courtroom within the Seychelles, comprised of judges of different apex courts from the Commonwealth, to adjudicate the case of Japanese European Engineering Ltd v Vijay. The Choose was appointed by the Constitutional Appointments Authority and sworn into workplace by the President of the Republic of Seychelles.
Justice Anderson is the creator of quite a few refereed articles in foremost international and regional regulation journals. He’s additionally the creator of a number of main tutorial texts, together with The Legislation of the Sea within the Caribbean (BRILL Publishers) (2022); Guaranteeing Environmental Entry Rights within the Caribbean (ECLAC, 2018); Caribbean Personal Worldwide Legislation (Candy & Maxwell, 2014); Rules of Caribbean Environmental Legislation, (ELI, 2012); and The Legislation of Caribbean Marine Air pollution, (Kluwer, 1997).
The Choose is the driving pressure behind the CCJ Academy for Legislation and editor of the Academy’s publications, together with Eminent Caribbean Jurists: Pioneering Caribbean Ladies Jurists: 2021 (co-editor); Authorized Dimension Arising from the Covid-19 Pandemic: 2020 (editor); Eminent Caribbean Jurists: Eminent Caribbean Worldwide Legislation Jurists (2019) (editor).
In 2011 and 2021 Justice Anderson was invited to be the keynote speaker on the 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the Institution of his Alma Mater, STATHS, and in 2018 he was acknowledged as one of the excellent graduates within the 70 years historical past of the College of the West Indies.
