Justice Chile Eboe-Osuji was formally sworn in on Tuesday as a choose of the Caribbean Courtroom of Justice (CCJ), in a ceremony held on the President’s Home in Trinidad and Tobago. President Christine Kangaloo administered the oath of workplace, marking a big milestone for the regional courtroom.
Eboe-Osuji, a Nigerian-Canadian jurist and former President of the Worldwide Felony Courtroom (ICC), replaces Justice Andrew Burgess, who retired from the CCJ on April 11. His appointment follows a aggressive choice course of by the Regional Judicial and Authorized Companies Fee (RJLSC), which reviewed 26 purposes for the submit.
“Justice Eboe-Osuji is an excellent authorized thoughts and a gifted jurist whose lengthy and distinguished profession has spanned many nations and establishments,” mentioned President Kangaloo. She praised the CCJ for its continued dedication to excellence, calling the choose’s addition “one other essential step” towards fulfilling its imaginative and prescient.
CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders welcomed the brand new appointee, expressing confidence within the affect he could have on regional jurisprudence. “Mr Justice Eboe-Osuji has an impeccable file of service as a lawyer and jurist. I’ve little doubt that he’ll make an essential contribution to the event of our Caribbean jurisprudence,” Saunders mentioned. He additionally emphasised the independence and integrity of the judicial appointment course of, describing it as “rigorous, aggressive, merit-based, and completely impartial of any political involvement.”
Justice Eboe-Osuji brings intensive expertise in worldwide regulation, with experience in felony and human rights regulation. His authorized profession consists of apply as a barrister in Nigeria and Canada, appearances earlier than the Supreme Courtroom of Canada, and repair because the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights’ authorized advisor. He has additionally contributed to main courts world wide by means of amicus curiae briefs and served as a professor and printed creator.
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Talking on the ceremony, Eboe-Osuji underscored the importance of the CCJ as each a courtroom for decoding the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and a last appellate courtroom for CARICOM member states. “There isn’t a must look past the seas for a last courtroom of attraction, given the standard of judges we’ve got on that Bench, and it’s an unbelievable honour for me to have been chosen,” he mentioned.
The CCJ, established in 2001, was created to exchange the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the ultimate courtroom of attraction for Caribbean nations. Judges of the CCJ serve till the age of 72, whereas the Courtroom’s President holds a non-renewable seven-year time period.
