PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 16 2015, CNS – The Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC) Friday announced the appointment of Justice Maureen Rajnauth-Lee as a judge to the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
“Judges appointed to the CCJ are evaluated on the basis of wide-ranging criteria that include experience, high moral character, intellectual and analytical ability, sound judgment, integrity and an understanding of people and society,” the RJLSC said in a statement.
It said she was selected from among applicants from the Caribbean, North America and Eastern Europe.
The Trinidad-born Justice Rajnauth-Lee is a Court of Appeal Judge in her country and will assume her new post in April.
A First Class Honours graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) as well as the Hugh Wooding Law School, she was admitted to the practice of law in Trinidad and Tobago in 1980.
The former State Counsel in the Solicitor General's Department in Trinidad and Tobago was, for many years as a member and then Vice-Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Law Association.
She was appointed a judge in 2001 and was elevated to the Court of Appeal a year later.
The CCJ was established in 2001 to replace the London-based Privy Council and has both an Original and Appellate jurisdiction.
While most of the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are signatories to the Original Jurisdiction, only Barbados, Guyana and Belize have signed on to the Appellate Jurisdiction.
