The Chief Justice of Barbados is the head of the
Supreme Court of
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 population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate) ...
as defined by the constitution.
The constitution of Barbados states:
*80.1 There shall be for Barbados a
Supreme Court of Judicature, consisting of a High Court and a Court of Appeal, with such jurisdiction, powers and authority as may be conferred upon those Courts respectively by this Constitution or any other law.
*80.2 The judges of the Supreme Court shall be the Chief Justice and such number of Puisne Judges as may be prescribed by Parliament
*81.1 The Chief Justice shall be appointed by the Governor General, by instrument under the Public Seal, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the leader of the Opposition.
The first Chief Justice of Barbados and St Lucia, Sir R Bowcher Clarke, took office on 13 December 1841. In 2011 Justice Marston Gibson was appointed the 13th incumbent.
List of Chief Justices
*1841–1874 Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke (also Chief Justice of St Lucia, 1850–59)
*1874–1886 Sir Charles Packer
*1886–1902 Sir
William Conrad Reeves
*1902–1925 Sir Herbert Greaves
*1925–1926 Richard Theodore Orpen
*1926–1936 Sir Robert Howard Furness
*1936–1957 Sir Ernest Allan Collymore
*1957–1958 Sir
Stanley Eugene Gomes (afterwards
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, 1958)
*1959–1965 Sir Kenneth Sievewright Stoby
*1965–1986 Sir
William Randolph Douglas
*''Barbados became independent, 1966''
*1987–2001 Sir
Denys Ambrose Williams
*2002–2010 Sir
David Anthony Cathcart Simmons
*2011–2020 Sir Marston C.D. Gibson
*2020–Present Sir Patterson Keith Herman Cheltenham
References
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Chief justices of Barbados