At the invitation of the Chief Justice, Madame Roxane George-Wiltshire, I made the welcoming presentation on the occasion of the admission of four lawyers to the Inner Bar as Senior Counsel on Friday last. This is what I said:
“It is an honour and a privilege to welcome to the Inner Bar the four Senior Counsel whose appointments were announced on December 30, 2017. According to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency, President David Granger ‘having considered their high quality of service in the legal profession and with confidence in their knowledge of the law’ appointed Kalam Azad Juman Yassin, Josephine Whitehead, Fitz Le Roy Peters and Andrew Mark Fitzgerald Pollard as Senior Counsel with effect from January 1, 2018.
“On this occasion of the formal admission of our four new Senior Counsel to the Inner Bar, I have no doubt that they take great pride in their achievement. They will no doubt reflect on their journeys in the legal profession that brought them to this day, the toil they engaged in to perfect their skills and the exacting requirements of legal practice, as they secure justice for their clients. They have experienced and endured the demanding commitment to the legal profession that they were told they would have to observe when they were admitted to practice. The time has now arrived for them to take their place among the leaders of our profession. They will now have to dispense the same advice that they received when they were admitted to practice to lawyers now being admitted.
