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February 2015
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Advancing the indigenous case: CCJ symposium gets support
The newly named Noor Hassanali Auditorium at the Faculty of Law on the St. Augustine campus was tightly packed for hours on January 21, 215 as the Caribbean Court of Justice Symposium got underway. The Symposium, Advancing the Case for Regionalism and Indigenous Jurisprudence, was hosted by the Faculty of Law in collaboration with the High Commission of Canada, the International Labour Organization, the Organization of American States, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations Development Program. Dean of the Faculty, Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine led off the proceedings before the Canadian High Commissioner, Gerard Latulippe welcomed participants. The first panel focused on the theme, Experience of other Commonwealth countries which have replaced the Privy Council and the effect on their respective justice systems. It was moderated by Mark Guthrie, a legal adviser in the Rule of Law Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and the members were Reginald Amour, SC, an attorney-at-law of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago; Benoit Pelletier, Professor of Law, of the University of Ottawa; the Hon Justice John Alexander Logan, a Judge in the Federal Court of Australia. The second panel on the Quality and Effectiveness of the CCJ, was moderated by the Deputy Dean at the Law Faculty, Alicia Elias-Roberts, and members were Professor Belle Antoine, Justice Denys Barrow, a Justice of Appeal in Belize, and Dante Mauricio Negro Alvarado, Director of the Department of International Law at the Organisation of American States. Look out for our next issue when we will bring more details on the discussions that took place. |
