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The Jamaican Bar Association is a voluntary organisation of attorneys-at-law called to the Jamaican Bar. [1] It was formed on 16 January 1973. The association is not a regulatory or disciplinary body and has no power to hear complaints against attorneys, even if they are members of the association.
Rowe has also been an attorney of choice for Jamaican entertainers with US immigration issues. In November 2013, the Jamaican-American Bar Association recognized Rowe as an "elder statesman" of the Jamaican legal community in the United States and for being a "singular pioneer" for the trans-Caribbean practice. [7]
Attorney-At-Law: Thomas Tavares-Finson (born 7 July 1953) ... He is a member of the Bar Association of Jamaica, the Advocates Association of Jamaica, and the Lay ...
Phillips was called to the Bar on August 8, 1974. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in April 1998. She is a member of the Bar Association of Jamaica, and served as its first female president from 2001 to 2004. [3] [4] Phillips worked at the Norman Manley Law School as a tutor in civil procedure since 1994. She has been a member of the General ...
Daisy Lucille Chambers (1948): First female lawyer in Jamaica [184] [185] Ena Joyce Collymore-Woodstock (1947; Bar's Gray Inn, England): [185] [186] [187] First female judge in Jamaica (upon her appointment as the Resident Magistrate in 1959). She was also the first female appointed as the Clerk of the Courts (1950).
Vivian O. Blake QC (15 March 1921 – 28 December 2000) was a Jamaican lawyer and politician. [1] He served as president of the Jamaican Bar Association and chairman of the Bar Council's Disciplinary Committee, and became chief justice of the Bahamas. [2]
Jewel Scott – first Jamaican American judge in Georgia. First Jamaican American (female) appointed as a Judge of the Clayton County Superior Court. First woman and first Caribbean-American District Attorney for Clayton County. [77] [78] Alison Smith – lawyer, first black woman president of Florida's Broward County Bar Association [79] [80]
List of attorneys general. See Attorney General of Jamaica for a listing of the individuals who served pre-1962. Victor B. Grant Q.C. [11] (1962-1972)