Nationality: Jamaican

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1994

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

• 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
• Partner, Dunn, Cox & Orrett, 1985, and Head of Litigation, 1995 – 2008;
• Appeared before Courts in a wide range of jurisdictions in the Caribbean and before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;
• Justice of Appeal, Belize, 2004 – 2015;
• Justice of Appeal, Jamaica, 2008;
• President of the Court of Appeal, Jamaica, 2016;
• Commonwealth Foundation Fellow, 1991;
• Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2015

MEMBERSHIPS

• 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;
• 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
• Member, Cayman Islands Judicial Education Committee, 2016