| St Kitts and Nevis national, Sir Dennis Byron, was on Thursday sworn in as the second president of the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).The 68-year-old international jurist took the oath before Governor General of St. Kitts and Nevis,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, Sir Cuthbert Sebastian.News reports said that he expressed his faith in the Court and was high in praise for his predecessor, Michael De La Bastide ofSir Dennis ByronTrinidad and Tobago, whom he said has been helpful in bringing him up to date about the CCJ.Born in Basseterre, Sir Dennis won the Leeward Islands Scholarship in 1960 and went on to read law at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. He graduated with an M.A and LL.B. in 1966. In 1965,China Jerseys Cheap, he was called to the Bar of England and Wales.Sir Dennis distinguished himself in private practice as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor throughout the Leeward Islands,Jerseys NFL China, with Chambers in Saint Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla from 1966 to 1982. In 1982, he was appointed as a High Court Judge of the EasternCaribbean Supreme Court. In 1986,Cheap Jerseys 2018, as Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Grenada, on secondment from the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, he presided over the famous murder trial involving the assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop – the longest criminal trial in Caribbean history.He was appointed a substantive member of the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 1990.In 1995,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, over a five-month period, in tandem with Operation Uphold Democracy,Wholesale China Jerseys, Judge Byron, with two other international Judges, and a full supporting team, organized judicial education programmes for the Haitian Judiciary.In 1999, Judge Byron was appointed Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, after acting in that position for two years.Sir Dennis has served as President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute in Halifax, Canada since the year 2000.In March 2001, then Chief Justice Byron was a member of a select international delegation of jurists who travelled to Zimbabwe on a Fact-Finding Mission on behalf of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association, inquiring into reports of abuses against the Rule of Law by the Mugabe Government.In 2000, Judge Byron was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and he was appointed a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2004. Also in 2004, he was appointed as an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.At the invitation of then-Secretary General Kofi Annan, Judge Byron, while serving as Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, from which position he retired, became a permanent Judge of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2004.Sir Dennis was elected President of the Tribunal in May 2007 and re-elected for a second term in May 2009. |
