Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ)
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Message from the Caribbean Community on the passing of The Rt. Hon. Michael de la Bastide
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mourns the loss of the Right Honourable Mr. Justice Michael de la Bastide who passed away on 30 March 2024. Mr. Justice de la Bastide was the first President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), a role to which he applied his extensive knowledge of the law and administration. He will be remembered for establishing…
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Message from the Caribbean Community on the passing of Mme Justice Desiree Bernard
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply saddened by the passing of the Honourable Madame Justice Desiree Bernard on 28 March 2024. Madame Justice Bernard embodied the ideals of distinguished professional advancement, gaining stellar academic qualifications in jurisprudence and blazing a trail as the first woman to be appointed to many significant roles, including Justice of the Court of Appeal of…
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Keynote Address by CARICOM Secretary-General at ‘CARICOM at Fifty’ Symposium
CARICOM Secretary-General, Dr. Carla Barnett, delivered the keynote address Friday morning (14 April 2023) at the opening ceremony of a symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the Caribbean Community being observed this year. The virtual symposium, titled ‘CARICOM at the Crossroads: Rising to the Challenge of a New Era’, was organised by the CARICOM Secretariat in collaboration with the…
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The Caribbean Community mourns passing of Regional Legal Luminary Duke Pollard – CARICOM SG
CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett has expressed condolences on the passing of Justice (ret), Duke Pollard of Guyana. The Secretary-General, in a message to the President of Guyana H.E. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, noted Justice Pollard’s significant body of work for the Region which included assisting to draft the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, and…
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Remarks by CARICOM Secretary-General Dr. Carla Barnett to the Pioneering Caribbean Women Jurists Awards Ceremony, 8 March 2022
Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados; Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, President of Caribbean Court of Justice; Honourable Mr. Justice Winston Anderson, Chairman of the Pioneering Caribbean Women Jurists Project and Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice; Other Honourable Justices of the Caribbean Court of…
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CCJ rules that the Guyana Court of Appeal’s Judgement and Chief Election Officer’s Report were invalid
CCJ, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – In a judgment delivered today, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that the judgment handed down by the Guyana Court of Appeal on 22 June 2020, which judgmentwas used by the Chief Election Officer (CEO) to invalidate over 100,000 votes, was invalid. The Court also decided that, as a consequence, the…
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CCJ’s 2018 Annual Report showcases growth
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has released its 2018 annual report. CCJ’s President, the Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, said in his introduction to the report, “over the last year, the Court maintained its solid track record of outstanding judicial work. The appellate caseload of the CCJ steadily expanded. But, even more significant than the increase in the number of appeals heard…
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CCJ strikes down mandatory death penalty in Barbados
Judgments were delivered by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a pair of unrelated death penalty cases from Barbados. The cases, Jabari Sensimania Nervais v The Queen and Dwayne Omar Severin v The Queen, were consolidated because both appeals challenged the murder convictions of each of the men and the constitutionality of the mandatory death sentence for murder in…
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Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders chosen as next CCJ President
Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Dudley Saunders, a citizen of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been appointed as the incoming President of the Caribbean Court of Justice with effect from July 4, 2018. Sir Dennis Byron The Heads of Government of CARICOM made the appointment at its last meeting, held in Haiti from February 26-27, 2018, acting on…
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SG reiterates call for Member States to make CCJ their Final Court
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ambassador Irwin LaRocque has once again called for the Member States to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final court of Appeal for the Region. Speaking to the Full Court at a Special Sitting in honour of the Honourable Mme Justice Desiree Bernard who is retiring…
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