Special Sitting for new CCJ President in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
The Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), will be honoured on Friday 20 July, 2018,with a Special Sitting his home country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The Special Sitting will be streamed live on the Court’s website, www.ccj.org.
The Special Sitting on Friday is the second accorded Justice Saunders. The first was held on 13 July at the CCJ’s headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago.
New CCJ President Hon. Justice Saunders shows signed oath of office in the presence of Jamaica’s Governor General. pic.twitter.com/pN0ie5d8XQ
— CARICOM (@CARICOMorg) July 4, 2018
The new President was sworn in at a ceremony in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 4 July, 2018, ahead of the Thirty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM.
The Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, a native of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill) in 1975 and a Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad & Tobago in 1977. In 2005, Mr. Justice Saunders was among the first cohort of judges to join the CCJ bench before being elevated to President.