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Chief Justice Of St Vincent
The Chief Justice of St Vincent was the head of the Supreme Court of Saint Vincent in Saint Vincent, an island member of the Windward Islands in the West Indies. The court was replaced by the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal in 1939; both in turn were replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which performs both functions. List of Chief Justices * 1803– Drewry Ottley (died 1807) * 1811– Edward Sharpe * 1822– William Wylly * 1827– John Henry Hobson * 1831–1846 John Peterson * 1846–>1856 Henry Edward Sharpe * 1866–>1896 George Trafford * 1897 Geoffrey St. Aubyn (acting) * 1903–1906 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff (afterwards Chief Justice of St Lucia, 1906) * 1907– Walter Shaw (afterwards Chief Justice of British Honduras, 1912) *1912–1915 Robert Blair Roden (afterwards Chief Justice of British Honduras, 1915) * 1915–1919 Sir Anthony de Freitas (afterwards Chief Justi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Saint Vincent
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Chief Justice Of Belize
The Chief Justice of Belize is the head of the Supreme Court of Belize. Under Chapter 7 of the Constitution of Belize, the Chief Justice is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime Minister. Since the retirement of Kenneth Benjamin in March 2020, Michelle Arana was the acting Chief Justice of Belize. Louise Blenman was appointed to fill the vacancy in September 2022. List of Chief Justices The full list as published by the Attorney General of Belize: # Robert Temple Esq., 1843–1861 British Honduras (1862-1973) # Richard J. Connor, 1862 # William Alexander Parker, 1875–1881 #Sir Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles, 1881 (later Administrator of Grenada, 1887 and Attorney General of Jamaica, 1896) # William Anthony Musgrave Sheriff, 1883–1886 #Sir William Meigh Goodman, 1886–1889 #Sir William John Anderson, 1890–1900 (afterwards Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1900) #Sir Walter Llewellyn Lewis, 1900–1906 #Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, 1906–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Judges
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Attorney General Of Fiji
The Attorney-General is a political and legal officer in Fiji. The attorney-general is the chief law officer of the State, and has responsibility for supervising Fijian law and advising the government on legal matters. Like other members of the Fijian Cabinet, the attorney-general is appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister. According to the 2013 Constitution of Fiji, the attorney-general is required to be a registered legal practitioner in Fiji, with not less than fifteen years' post-admission legal practice, either in Fiji or internationally. The attorney-general is a member of the Cabinet of Fiji, and is normally expected to be a Member of Parliament. The Prime Minister may, however, choose an attorney-general from outside Parliament after determining there is no suitably qualified Member of Parliament who supports the Government. An Attorney-General who is not a Member of Parliament may sit in Parliament, but may not vote. The office of the attorney-ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ransley Thacker
Ransley Samuel Thacker (1891 – 3 January 1966) was a British lawyer and judge. Employed in the colonial service, he served as Chief Justice of St Vincent (1931–1933), Attorney General of Fiji (1933-1938), and as a judge in British Kenya. He is best known for the jailing of Jomo Kenyatta. Legal and political career In the early 1930s, Thacker served as Chief Justice of St Vincent, and was serving in that role as of 7 July 1933. Thacker took up the post of Attorney General of Fiji at the end of 1933, passing through Sydney en route to Suva on 21 December. Thacker served as judge on the Supreme Court of British Kenya from 1938 to 1950. He retired to Nairobi on a £474 pension, which he supplemented by practicing law. He was called out of retirement on 17 November 1952, however, as a First Class Magistrate to preside over the trial of the Kapenguria Six — Jomo Kenyatta and five others accused of organizing the Mau Mau movement. On 8 April 1953, Thacker sentenced them to seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Henry Jarrett
James Henry Jarrett, King's Counsel, KC (31 March 1895 – 7 April 1943) was a British colonial administrator and judge. He was Chief Justice of the Windward and Leeward Islands from 1940 until his death. Biography The son of Henry and Caroline Mary Jarrett, Jarrett was educated at Lancing College before being Call to the bar, called to the Bar by Gray's Inn. After service in the First World War from 1914 to 1919, he was appointed an Assistant District Commissioner in Uganda in 1919. He was seconded to the Judicial Department as a Magistrate in 1922, was appointed a Magistrate in 1924, became Assistant Attorney-General in 1926, and Crown Counsel in 1927. He was transferred to Grenada in 1929 as Attorney-General, and was Acting Administrator and Acting Chief Justice for St Vincent in 1930 and 1931. Appointed Attorney-General of the Bahamas in 1933, he was acting Chief Justice there in 1934, and Colonial Secretary from 1935 to 1940. He was Deputy Governor in 1935 and acting Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of Grenada
The Chief Justice of Grenada is the head of the Supreme Court of Grenada which consists of the High Court with three justices and a two-tier Court of Appeal. The original High Court of Grenada was replaced by the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal in 1939; both of the latter were replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which performs both functions. The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, known in Grenada as the Supreme Court of Grenada and the West Indies Associated States, is headquartered in St Lucia, and is now the superior court of record for Grenada and the other Caribbean states which comprise the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. Chief Justices * ''1763 Grenada became British colony'' *c.1770 James Brebner *1783–1787 William Lucas *1788–1804 Thomas Bridgewater *1805–1808 George Smith (afterwards Chief Judge of Trinidad, 1808) *1809–1812 Archibald Gloster (afterwards Chief Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Blair Roden
Sir Robert Blair Roden (21 April 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a British colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of St Vincent from 1912 to 1915 and Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1915 to 1921. Biography Roden was born in Antigua, the son of J. James Roden, a sugar planter. He was educated at the Ewart Institute in Newton Stewart, Scotland. Roden joined the Colonial Service in 1880. He was Magistrate of Nevis from 1890, Private Secretary to successive governors of the Leeward Islands in 1883, 1890, 1895, and 1896, He was a member of the St Kitt’s and Nevis Legislative Council from 1891, of the Federal Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands from 1898. In 1903, he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn and was appointed Police Magistrate of Bridgetown, Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Shaw (judge)
Sir Walter Sidney Shaw (15 April 1863 – 24 April 1937) was an English barrister and judge. He served as a judge in a number of British colonies, his last judicial appointment being as Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. He was also the chairman of the Shaw Commission which investigated the 1929 Palestine riots. Early life Born in 1863, Shaw was the second son of George Shaw, a barrister, of St George's Square, Pimlico. He was educated at Brighton College, leaving the school in 1879, and Trinity College, Cambridge,''Kingston Gleaner'', 26 May 1937. which was his father’s old college, where he was admitted in 1882."SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY" in John Venn, John Archibald Venn, eds., ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'', Vol. 2, Part V (Cambridge University Press, 1953)p. 482 "SHAW, WALTER SIDNEY. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 10, 1882. nds. of George (1843), of 71, St George's Square, London" He was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1888.''The Straits Times'' (Singapore), 4 Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Vincent (Antilles)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains. Its largest volcano and the country's highest peak, La Soufrière, is active, with the latest episode of volcanic activity having begun in December 2020 and intensifying in April 2021. There were major territory wars between the indigenous population of the Black Caribs, also called the Garifuna, and Great Britain in the 18th century, before the island was ceded to the British in 1763 and again in 1783. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gained independence from the United Kingdom on 27 October 1979 and became part of the British Commonwealth of Nations thereafter. Approximately 130,000 people currently live on the island, and the population saw significant migration to the UK in the early 1900s and between the 1940s and 1980s. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of St Lucia
The Chief Justice of St Lucia was the head of the Supreme Court of St Lucia, an island member of the Windward Islands in the West Indies. The court was replaced by the Windward and Leeward Islands Supreme Court and the Windward and Leeward Islands Court of Appeal in 1939; both in turn were replaced in 1967 by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court which performs both functions. List of Chief Justices * 1824–1831 John Jeremie * 1831 John Paynter Musson * 1833–1836 Jeffery Hart Bent (afterwards Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1836) * 1836–>1848 John Reddie * 1850–1859 Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke (also Chief Justice of Barbados) * 1859–>1869 John Grey Porter Atthill * 1871–1881 James Sherrard Armstrong James Sherrard Armstrong (27 April 1821 – 23 November 1888) was a Canadian lawyer, jurist, and landowner from Quebec. From 1871, he served as the Chief Justice for the colony of Saint Lucia and in 1880, he was additionally appointed Chief Ju ... (also Chief Justice o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court, superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat). It has unlimited jurisdiction in each member State. History The ECSC was established in 1967 by the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Order No. 223 of 1967. In relation to Grenada, the Court is styled "the Supreme Court of Grenada and the West Indies Associated States". See section 105 of the Grenada Constitution. Functions The functions of the ECSC are as follows: * To interpret and apply the laws of the various member states of the OECS; * To decide cases of both civil and criminal matters; * To hear appeals. Appeals from the ECSC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
