Lucky to be sworn in as Sea Law Judge

Former Court of Appeal judge Justice Anthony Lucky will be sworn in today as a judge of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea.  The swearing-in ceremony will take place in Hamburg, Germany, where the court is based.

Justice Lucky and his wife Cintra, flew out of New York on Friday for the ceremony. They were joined over the weekend by their eldest daughter Cindy-Ann, her husband Dr Lancelot Patrick and one-year-old daughter Isabel, who live in Canada. Justice Lucky was elected to the position by  92 of the 96 representatives of the contracting nations during a secret ballot at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 2. The 63-year-old Court of Appeal judge has a strong legal background on the law of the sea and will join 20 other judges who constitute the tribunal and meet twice annually in New York. However, the Court sits in Hamburg, Germany when necessary to adjudicate on disputes among states on maritime matters.  Lucky,  who replaces TT’s Lennox Ballah who died last April, is expected to serve out Ballah’s term which ends in September 2011.