Sir Stanley Eugene Gomes was a Guyanese Judge who was Chief Justice of

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and

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. He was appointed Attorney General of the Leeward Islands before August 1945. He then served as Chief Justice of Barbados from 1957 to 1958 and

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from 1958 to 1960. He was knighted in 1959. In August 1961 he was appointed Chief Justice of the newly established

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. The Federation was dissolved in May 1962.

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