Hon. Charles Quin, QC

Assigned to all Divisions

QUALIFICATIONS

  • History Honours graduate from Southampton University, England;
  • Studied law at the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland and was Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1978, where he practised until 1981;
  • Admitted as an attorney at law to the Supreme Court of Bermuda in 1981;

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

  • Crown counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers in Bermuda from 1981 to 1984;
  • Admitted as an attorney at law to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands in January 1985;
  • Senior partner of the law firm, Quin & Hampson, in Cayman from 1992 to 2007;
  • Acting Magistrate of the Summary Court in 1993 and acted as a magistrate for many years following that appointment;
  • Appointed Queen`s Counsel in 2004;
  • Admitted as an attorney at law to the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean in September 2005;
  • Acted as Attorney General of Montserrat in 2006;
  • Judge of the Grand Court from May 2008;
  • President of the Cayman Islands Law Society in 1999 and 2000, and again in 2006 and 2007;
  • Cayman Honorary Representative of the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) 2002-2012;
  • Member of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association (CMJA);
  • Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Cayman Islands Cricket Association.