CCJ honours Sir Dennis

THE Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will honour its outgoing president Sir Dennis Byron at a special sitting of the CCJ at the High

Court of Antigua and Barbuda on Wednesday. A CCJ statement said his term ends on July 3.

Sir Dennis said, “It is with much pride that I leave the CCJ after serving as President of the Court for seven years.

I am most pleased to be marking the end of this phase of my career with a special sitting in Antigua and Barbuda, because of the very special place that the country has in my heart”.

At the event, officials of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, the Conference of the Judiciary, and the region’s Bar Associations are due to pay tribute to Sir Dennis.

Members of the local and regional legal fraternity have been invited to attend.

Sir Dennis was first appointed as a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 1982 after a distinguished career in private practice. He then served as Chief Justice of that court, and then President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

On September 1, 2011, he was sworn-in by the Governor-General of St Kitts and Nevis as the second President of the CCJ.

Sir Dennis’s judicial career spans a total of 36 years throughout which time he left an indelible mark on each of the three judiciaries over which he presided both as a judge of high distinction and as a judicial reformer.

The public is welcome, to attend, space permitting at the High Court in Antigua and Barbuda.

The sitting will be broadcast live on the Court’s website at http://bit.ly/ABSitting2018.