PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC:
JUSTICE OF Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago's Supreme Court, Rolston Nelson, was sworn in as a judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday, February 1, at President's House, Port of Spain.
Justice Nelson was appointed a Justice of Appeal in 1999, directly from the private Bar where he practised as an advocate for 24 years. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1970, Jamaica in 1973 and Trinidad and Tobago in 1975.
The new CCJ Judge is an honorary distinguished fellow of the University of the West Indies. He has honours degrees in French and Spanish and jurisprudence from Oxford University and the LLM from the University of London.
Justice Nelson is an adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies Faculty of Law LLM programme and a tutor at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad. He is also a founding tutor of the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica.
He has served as a director and chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation and a director of Republic Bank Limited.
