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Ivor Archie (born August 18, 1960) is a Trinidadian
jurist
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who has served as
chief justice of
Trinidad and Tobago
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since 2008. He was formerly solicitor general of the Cayman Islands.
Personal life
He was born on August 18, 1960 in
Tobago
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. He attended Scarborough Anglican Boys’ School, Bishop’s High School, and
St Mary’s College.
He is married to Denise Rodriguez-Archie and they have two children, Chinyere and Sean.
Career
He graduated with a
BSc
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in Mechanical Engineering (
upper second class honours
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) from the
University of the West Indies
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in 1980. He worked as an engineer at Trintoplan Consultants Limited in
Trinidad
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and at
Schlumberger
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in
Libya
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.
Archie then studied law at the
Solent University
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in
Southampton
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,
England
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, receiving his
LLB
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in 1984. He received his
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at
Hugh Wooding Law School
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History
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in
St Augustine
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.
He was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1986.
Archie worked initially for Clarke and Company.
He then served as
State Counsel and Senior Crown Counsel for the governments of Trinidad and Tobago, the
Turks and Caicos Islands
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and the
Cayman Islands
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. He was
Solicitor General of the Cayman Islands and acted on occasion as the
Attorney General
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In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...
.
On March 1, 1998, he was appointed a
puisine judge of the
Supreme Court of Judicature. He became a Justice of Appeal on April 2, 2004 and chief justice on January 24, 2008. He is the eighth chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago and the youngest person to have taken the role. He is Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute, and a fellow of the Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute.
In 2013, he received the
Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
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.
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century Trinidad and Tobago judges
University of the West Indies alumni
Trinidad and Tobago engineers
Schlumberger people
Alumni of Solent University
Chief justices of Trinidad and Tobago
People educated at Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago
1960 births
Solicitors-General of the Cayman Islands
21st-century Trinidad and Tobago judges