Sir Isaac Emanuel Hyatali was the Chief Justice of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from 1972 until 1983. He was

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ed by

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in 1973. He died of

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on 2 December 2000.

Education

After attending

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, he was admitted to practice law at the Court of Gray’s Inn in

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in 1947.

References

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