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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] |
John Jeremie
Sir John Jeremie (19 August 1795 – 23 April 1841) was a British judge and diplomat, Chief Justice of Saint Lucia and Governor of Sierra Leone. He was given an award in 1836 for advancing "negro freedom" after accusing the judges in Mauritius of bias. He understood that colour prejudice and slavery were different problems. Biography Jeremie was born to John Jeremie, a barrister, on the British island of Guernsey in 1795. The History of Guernsey With Occasional Notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and Biographical Sketches Jonathan Duncan, 1841, p643-4 accessed 1 August 2008 He went to |
Jeffery Hart Bent
Jeffery Hart Bent, occasionally known as Geoffrey Hart Bent (1781 – 29 June 1852) was the first judge in the colony of New South Wales and the first Australian judge to be removed from office. Early life Bent was the son of the merchant, ship owner, and MP Robert Bent, of West Molesey, Surrey, and of Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and elder brother of Ellis Bent. He was educated at Mr Barnes's school, Manchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1804, and M.A. in 1807. He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1806. New South Wales He was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales, arriving at Sydney on 28 July 1814. He refused to disembark until acknowledged with a formal salute. He had been only a few weeks in the colony before he was appealing to Earl Bathurst against a decision of Governor Macquarie to fit up one of the wings of the hospital as a temporary court house. There was much delay in holding the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of British Guiana
The Chief Justice of Guyana is the senior judge of the High Court of the Supreme Court of Guyana and is appointed by the President of Guyana. The High Court consists of the Chief Justice as President of the Court supported by several Puisne Judges. There is a right of appeal from the Supreme Court to the Guyana Court of Appeal, which was established in 1966 and consists of the Chancellor as President of the Court assisted by the Chief Justice and several Justices of Appeal. Since 1966 the Chancellor has thus been the head of the Judiciary in Guyana. Chancellors *1966–1968 Sir Kenneth Sievewright Stoby *1968–1975 Sir Edward Victor Luckhoo *1976–1980 Joseph Oscar Fitzclarence Haynes *1980–1984 Victor E. Crane *1984–1988 Keith S. Massiah *1988–1995 Kenneth Montague George *1995–1996 Aubrey F. R. Bishop *1996–?2001 Cecil C Kennard *2001–2005 Désirée Bernard *2005–2017 Carl Ashok Singh (acting) *2017–present Yonette Cummings-Edwards (acting) Chief Justices *c.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sherrard Armstrong
James Sherrard Armstrong (27 April 1821 – 23 November 1888) was a Canadians, 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 Justice of Tobago. Resigning from both offices in 1882, he returned to his home at Sorel, Quebec, Sorel. In 1886, he was given the chairmanship of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Capital and Labor in Canada. It was in a hearing of that commission that Olivier-David Benoît was to make his case about the conditions faced by workers in the boot and shoe industry. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1879 Birthday Honours. Notes References * External links Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online'' * 1821 births 1888 deaths Lawyers in Quebec British Windward Islands judges Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Chief Justices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Carrington (judge)
Sir John Worrell Carrington, (29 May 1847 – 11 February 1913) was a British jurist, elected representative, and colonial administrator between 1872 and 1902. He served the Caribbean colonies of Barbados, St. Lucia, Tobago, Grenada, and British Guiana until his final appointment as Chief Justice of Hong Kong. Early life Carrington was born in 1847 at St Joseph's parish on Barbados and was the fourth son of Thomas Worrell Carrington (1801–1855), a planter, of Industry Plantation. He had a dozen siblings and an older brother, George Carrington (1841–1891) who was also a lawyer in the firm of Messrs. Carrington and Sealy, Solicitors in Bridgetown St. Michael's. He attended The Lodge School. was then a scholar at Codrington College and was even known for having played one first-class cricket match for the island before he finished in 1866. Carrington's mother, Christian Wharton Reed (1815–1883) was from an Oxfordshire family and his ties with Oxford were clearly str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Child (judge)
The Honourable Arthur Child (20 November 1852 – 24 August 1902)CHILD, Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007 was a British lawyer, jurist and colonial administrator who was Chief Justice of St Lucia from 1890 to 1902. Career Child was born in 1852, the 11th child of Henry Child, a solicitor in London. He was from a family of lawyers; two of his father′s brothers were also solicitors. He was educated privately at Priory-house School, Clapton and the University College London, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple on 17 November 1876. After practicing on the South Eastern Circuit at the Mayor′s Court and the Central Criminal Court, he left for the West Indies when he was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate at San Fernando, Trinidad in 1882. He also acted as a puisne judge there from 1887 to 1888. He was appointed acting Chief Justice of Saint Lucia in 1889, and confirmed in the position in 1890. He also administered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Justice Of Bermuda
The Chief Justice of Bermuda is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Bermuda. Chief Justices *2018–present Narinder Hargun *2012–2018 Ian Kawaley *2004–2012 Richard Ground *1993-2004 Sir Austin Ward *1977-1993 Sir James Rufus Astwood *1973–1977 Sir John Crampton Summerfield (later Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, 1978) *1968–1973 Sir George Oswald Ratteray *1961–1968 Sir Myles John Abbott *''1960–1961 Sir Allen C. Smith (acting)'' *1958–1960 Sir Newnham Arthur Worley *1952–1958 Joseph Trounsell Gilbert *1941–1952 Sir Cyril Gerard Brooke Francis *''1939–1941 R. C. Hollis Hallett (acting)'' *1927–1939 Sydney Orme Rowan-Hamilton *1924–1927 Sir Kenneth James Beatty *1917–1923 Sir Colin Rees-Davies *1912–1917 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff *1904–1911 Sir Henry Cowper Gollan (afterwards Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, 1911) *1900–1904 Sir Samuel Brownlow Gray *1878–1899 Sir Josiah Rees *1872–1877 Thomas Lett Wood *1856–187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Coller
Frank Herbert Coller, CB (26 December 1866 – 8 October 1938) was a British lawyer, judge and civil servant. Born on 26 December 1866 at King's Lynn, he was the fourth son of Richard Coller. He attended Westminster School then Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1884; he studied classics, graduating in 1889 (having placed in the first class in both mods and greats). He was president of the Oxford Union in 1890. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1893 and practised on the South Eastern Circuit before he was appointed Chief Justice of St Lucia in 1912."Mr F. H. Coller", ''The Times'' (London), 10 October 1938, p. 16. . Amidst the First World War, in January 1917 he was seconded to serve in the Ministry of Food; he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1919 New Year Honours for his work. Having resigned as Chief Justice on 30 June 1919, he was the Ministry of Food's Permanent Secretary from November 1919 until March 1921, when the ministry was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Judges
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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