Adrian Dudley Saunders (born 4 January 1954) is a judge from

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. Since 2005, he has been a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice.

Early life

Saunders was born in Saint Vincent. He earned his

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degree with honours from the

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in 1975. In 1996, Saunders was appointed a judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). He became a High Court Judge in 1997 and from 1997 to 2001 served as a judge in

Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...

and

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. In 2001, he began serving as a judge in

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. In 2003, Saunders became a Justice of Appeal of the ECSC and in 2004 he became the acting Chief Justice of the ECSC, succeeding Dennis Byron. As Chief Justice, he was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of

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, the

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, Saint Kitts and Nevis,

, and

. In 2005, he was appointed as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice and stepped down from the ECSC. In 2009, Mr. Justice Saunders became the Chairman of the Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers, a position which he continues to hold. In April 2018, he was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration. In July 2018, he was sworn in as the third President of the Caribbean Court of Justice by His Excellency, the Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen, ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J, Governor General of Jamaica at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Montego Bay, Jamaica.

References

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