J’can professor to be sworn in as CCJ judge

(Jamaica Observer) – The Caribbean Court of Justice will have its first Jamaican on the bench when Professor Charles Winston Anderson is sworn in as judge at King’s House tomorrow.

Anderson, who is the executive director of the Caribbean Law Institute Centre in the law faculty at the University of the West Indies (UWI), was selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission which is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad where he will take up his appointment.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will deliver a short address after Anderson is sworn in by Governor General Sir Patrick Allen.

Anderson was born in Brittonville, St Ann and attended the Ferncourt High and St Andrew Technical High schools. He is a holder of Bachelor of Law degree from the University of the West Indies and a Doctorate in Philosophy in International and Environmental Law from the University of Cambridge. He has been called to the Bar in England, Barbados and Jamaica.