On Wednesday, 10 July 2024, the CCJ Academy for Law was pleased to launch its documentary video ‘Legendary Caribbean Legal Practitioners’, showcasing its chosen 48 exceptional Caribbean lawyers.
This is the third instalment of the Academy’s Eminent Caribbean Jurist series.
The launch of the documentary was held in the context of the first “Legal Conference on Criminal Justice Reform – Advancing the Needham’s Point Declaration” held 10-11 July 2024 in Guyana Marriott Hotel Georgetown.
The documentary presented in detail the 48 honourees who hail from Anguilla (1), Antigua and Barbuda (1), The Bahamas (1), Barbados (6), Belize (4), British Virgin Islands (1), Grenada (1), Guyana (8), Haiti (1), Jamaica (10), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Saint Lucia (1), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1), Suriname (3), and Trinidad and Tobago (8), showcasing their respective home countries.
A brief programme chaired by Mrs Danielle McConney preceded the premiere which remarks Mr Teni Housty, Second Vice-President of the Guyana Bar Association and Mr Ruggles Ferguson, on behalf of the OECS Bar Association.
As tokens of its deep appreciation, the CCJ Academy presented copies of its Legendary Caribbean Legal Practitioners to Honourable Mr Mohabir A. Nandlall SC, Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Guyana, Mr Jason Wilkes, Public Management Sector Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Mr Teni Housty, and Mr Ruggles Ferguson. The video documentary is available on YouTube via the link: Legendary Caribbean Legal Practitioners.
As with the Academy’s previous publications, it is hoped that highlighting the lives and work of these Caribbean legal personalities will inspire the younger generation of practitioners. The latest publication, along with the other books in the Jurist series, is available for purchase on the CCJ Academy for Law’s website at https://ccjacademy.org/product/legendary-caribbean-legal-practitioners/
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was inaugurated in Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on 16 April 2005 and presently has a Bench of six judges presided over by CCJ President, the Honourable Mr Justice Adrian Saunders. The CCJ has an Original and an Appellate Jurisdiction and is effectively, therefore, two courts in one. In its Original Jurisdiction, it is an international court with exclusive jurisdiction to interpret and apply the rules set out in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) and to decide disputes arising under it. The RTC established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). In its Original Jurisdiction, the CCJ is critical to the CSME and all 12 Member States which belong to the CSME (including their citizens, businesses, and governments) can access the Court’s Original Jurisdiction to protect their rights under the RTC. In its Appellate Jurisdiction, the CCJ is the final court of appeal for criminal and civil matters for those countries in the Caribbean that alter their national Constitutions to enable the CCJ to perform that role. At present, five states access the Court in its Appellate Jurisdiction, these being Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, and Saint Lucia. However, by signing and ratifying the Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Court of Justice, Member States of the Community have demonstrated a commitment to making the CCJ their final court of appeal. The Court is the realisation of a vision of our ancestors, an expression of independence and a signal of the region’s coming of age.
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