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
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Ne ...
which performs both functions.
List of Chief Justices
* 1824–1831
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 Maurit ...
* 1831 John Paynter Musson
* 1833–1836
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, shi ...
(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 of Tobago, 1880)
* 1882–1889 Sir
John Worrell Carrington (St Lucia and Tobago) (afterwards Attorney General of British Guiana)
* 1890–1902
Arthur Child
* 1903–1905 John Bayldon Walker
* 1906–1912 Percy Musgrave Cresswell Sheriff
(afterwards
Chief Justice of Bermuda, 1912)
* 1912–1919
Frank Herbert Coller
* 1919–1927 Sir Anthony de Freitas (afterwards
Chief Justice of British Guiana, 1927)
* 1930–1934 Thomas William Savile Garraway
* 1934–1940 George Edward Fugl Richards
References
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St Lucis
Chief justices