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CCJ Appoints New Justice

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - January 22, 2015

Above: the Caribbean Court of Justice’s headquarters in Trinidad

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Caribbean Court of Justice has a new member.

The regional court’s Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission has appointed Maureen Rajnauth-Lee as the tribunal’s newest judge.

Rajnauth-Lee was selected from among applicants from the Caribbean, North America and Eastern Europe.

A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Rajnauth-Lee is a Justice of Appeal of the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago.

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She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and of the Hugh Wooding Law School.

“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 court said in a statement.

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