Four judicial appointments on Friday

Two High Court Judges are to be elevated to the rank of Justice of Appeal and two attorneys are to be sworn in as High Court Judges on Friday. Justices Ivor Archie and Allan Mendonca will be elevated to the rank of Justice of Appeal and former attorneys-at-law Anthony Carmona and Carol Gobin will be sworn in as High Court Judges. The swearing in is to be conducted by President George Maxwell Richards at President’s House at 10 am. The Tobago-born Archie worked as an attorney in the Turks and Caicos Islands and in the Cayman Islands from 1989. While in the Cayman Islands he was instrumental in the development of the Caribbean Financial Action Task force and the training of regional prosecutors. He was elevated to the Tobago High Court bench in 1998 after holding the position of Senior Crown Counsel.  He was also Solicitor General in the Cayman Islands and acted as Attorney General on several occasions.

Mendonca graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School in 1991 and was admitted to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England of Whales. He was appointed puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago in May 1999. Carmona, a graduate of the Hugh Wooding Law School, worked as a senior State Attorney until 1994 when he was appointed Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. In 2000 Carmona was appointed Senior Counsel. Gobin was called to the Bar of England at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in July 1980. She acted as a temporary puisne Judge from September 1997 to March 1998. She has since become Coordinator of the Advocacy Training Programme for the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago.