Date Appointed
Appointed since 2015
Nationality
Jamaican
QUALIFICATIONS
- Born 1950, Jamaican
- University education at University of the West Indies and as a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford
- Admitted as an attorney-at-law in Jamaica, 1975
- Academic Staff (full time) of Norman Manley Law School and Council of Legal Education for the Commonwealth Caribbean, 1978-1982 and then associate tutor and course director
- Joined Dunn, Cox & Orrett, 1982-present
- Partner, 1985 and Head of Litigation, 1995-2008
- Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1994
- Appeared before Courts in a wide range of jurisdictions in the Caribbean and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- President, Jamaican Bar Association, 1995-1999
- Secretary, Organisation of Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Associations, 1985-1993
- Former Member of General Legal Council for Jamaica
- Chairman, Kingston Legal Aid Clinic, 1995-2008
- Founding Chairman, Legal Aid Council of Jamaica, 1997-2001
- Chairman, Council of Legal Education, 1998-2005
- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Justice of Appeal, Belize, 2004-2015
- Justice of Appeal, Jamaica, 2008
- President of the Court of Appeal, Jamaica, 2016
- Commonwealth Foundation Fellow, 1991
- Member of Commonwealth Expert Group on the reform of the law of evidence, 2001
- Leo Goodwin Memorial Fellow at Nova Southeastern University, Florida 2004
- Chairman, Continuing Legal Professional Development Committee, Jamaica, 2015-present
- Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2015
- Member, Cayman Islands Judicial Education Committee, 2016