by Oscar Ramjeet
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has a new Chief Justice. He is Hugh Anthony Rawlins who has been serving as a Court of Appeal Judge since 2005 and has held many legal positions for the past two decades having worked as Crown Counsel, Registrar/Magistrate, Solicitor General, and Master before his elevation to a High Court Judge in 2002.
Justice Rawlins, who was born in Nevis in 1950, was also a schoolteacher, and labour commissioner before he studied law. He later became a lecturer in law at the University of the West Indies between 1995 and 2000. He was called to the Bar in St Kitts/Nevis in 1985 after completing his LLB degree and his Certificate in Legal Education at the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica.
