ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Former lawyer common Jimmy Bristol, KC, is difficult the choice of the Judicial and Authorized Companies Companies (JLSC) over the appointment of St. Lucian jurist Justice Eddy Ventose as a choose within the Jap Caribbean Supreme Court docket of Enchantment with impact from January this 12 months.
Bristol, a former momentary Excessive Court docket choose, filed his declare on December 9, arguing, amongst different issues, that “Justice Ventose didn’t meet the {qualifications} for his appointment as outlined in part 5 of the Court docket’s Order on the date of his appointment.”
Bristol has filed a declare of Certiorari, which implies ‘to be licensed ‘or ‘to learn.’ The next courtroom points Certiorari to a decrease courtroom or tribunal both to switch a case pending with the latter to itself or to squash the latter’s order in a case.
He’s contending that Justice Ventose, who was appointed on January 8 this 12 months, “has not been a Choose for 5 years as outlined by part 5 (2) (a) (i ) of the Court docket’s Order nor was he certified to apply as an advocate or had practiced as an advocate for lower than 15 years as is required by Part 5 (2) (a) (ii ) of the Court docket’s Order.”
Within the affidavit, Bristol stated that the data offered by the Get together within the Utility didn’t present that he was certified beneath Part 5(2)(a)(i), having solely served as a choose for lower than the requisite 5 years.
“Equally, the data didn’t present that he was certified beneath Part 5(2)(a)(ii), as he was not certified to and didn’t apply as an advocate in a courtroom of limitless jurisdiction for a interval or intervals amounting within the mixture to not lower than fifteen years,” Bristol additional argues.
He notes that the standards for appointment to the workplace of Chief Justice and that of a Justice of Enchantment are equivalent in Part 5 of the Court docket’s Order.
“The Get together, not having met the qualifying standards for appointment to the place of Chief Justice, likewise wants to satisfy the equivalent standards for appointment as a Justice of Enchantment. In a letter dated the thirtieth of April 2024, the search Committee knowledgeable the Get together of his failure to satisfy the stated qualification.
No date has but been set for the listening to of the matter.
Justice Ventose commenced his authorized profession in 2004 as a trainee solicitor at Slaughter and Might, London, United Kingdom, qualifying as a solicitor of England and Wales in 2006. He was referred to as to the Bar of St. Lucia in 2007 and was subsequently admitted to the Bar of different Commonwealth Caribbean States.
In 2006, Justice Ventose began his educational profession as a regulation lecturer on the School of Regulation, College of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and have become a regulation professor in 2012. He has over 70 publications and three books, together with Commonwealth Caribbean Administrative Regulation, revealed in 2012. J
Justice Ventose served in numerous administrative capacities on the College of the West Indies, together with deputy dean and dean of the school of regulation and as director of graduate research and analysis at Cave Hill Campus.
In November and December 2016, Justice Ventose acted as a Grasp of the Jap Caribbean Supreme Court docket assigned to Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, and the Territory of the Virgin Islands.
In September 2018, he was appointed Excessive Court docket Choose of the Jap Caribbean Supreme Court docket and assigned to St. Kitts-Nevis.
Between Might and December 2023, Justice Ventose held a number of appearing appointments as Justice of Enchantment of the Jap Caribbean Supreme Court docket.
