The President of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas heads the

Court of Appeal of the Bahamas The basis of the Bahamian Law and legal system lies within the English Common Law tradition. Justices of the Supreme Court, Registrars and Magistrates are all appointed by The Governor-General acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Servic ...

Legal basis

The position of President of the Court of Appeal is authorised by Article 98(2)(a) of the

Constitution of the Bahamas A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princi ...

. Under Article 98(2)(b), the President may invite the Chief Justice to sit in the Court of Appeal. Under Article 99(1), the

Governor-General Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy t ...

appoints the President on the recommendation of the

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition. Article 102(6) governs removal of the President; the Prime Minister recommends removal to the Governor-General, who then forms a tribunal of at least three members selected by the Governor-General in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister.

List of presidents

* Hon. Sir Ronald O. Sinclair, 1965 to 1970 * Hon. Sir

Paget Bourke Sir Paget John Bourke, SC (1906 – 7 November 1983) was an Irish barrister and British colonial judge who served as chief justice of Sierra Leone and Cyprus . Biography The son of H.C. Bourke, of Amana, Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Bourke ...

, 1970 to 1975 * Hon. Sir Michael Hogan, 1975 to 1978 * Hon. Sir

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, 1978 to 1982 * Hon. Kenneth Henry, 1987 to 1992 * Hon. Vincent C. Meville, 1992 to 1995 * Hon. J. C. Gonsalves-Sabola, 1 January 1996 to 2 October 1999 * Hon.

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, 3 October 1999 to 31 December 1999 * Hon. Kenneth George, 1 January 2000 to 11 March 2000 * Rt Hon.

Edward Zacca Sir Edward Zacca (26 July 1931 – 11 November 2019) was chief justice of the Jamaican Supreme Court from 1985 to 1996. Under the Constitution of Jamaica, the chief justice of Jamaica serves as acting governor-general of Jamaica when that ...

, 27 March 2000 to 27 July 2001 * Rt Hon. Dame

Joan Sawyer Dame Joan Augusta Sawyer, DBE, PC (born 26 November 1940) is a Bahamian judge. She was Chief Justice of the Bahamas from 1996 to 2001 and President of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas from 2001 to 2010. She was the first woman to ever serve ...

, 4 September 2001 to 26 November 2010 * Hon. Dame Anita Allen, 30 November 2010 to present

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