Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) President, Justice Winston Anderson on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, at the Office of the DPP, Eve Leary, Kingston, Georgetown.
Justice Anderson was in Guyana on a visit primarily for the swearing-in of Guyana-born jurist, Dr Arif Bulkan to sit as a Judge of the CCJ.
On arrival at the DPP’s Chambers, Justice Anderson was graciously received by the DPP and her legal and non-legal staff.
ln brief remarks, he expressed his delight at meeting with the DPP, with whom he discussed issues pertaining to the upcoming CCJ’s Academy for Laws’ Eighth Biennial Conference scheduled for November in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ali-Hack expressed her appreciation to Justice Anderson for his visit and noted that the visit presented an opportunity for the State lawyers to meet him in person since they would appear before him in criminal appeals heard at the CCJ.
“lt has been a tradition of the legal profession for a lawyer to first be introduced to the Judges before appearance,” the DPP stated.
Justice Anderson also had a tour of the DPP’s Chambers.
Since its inauguration 20 years ago on April 16, 2005, the CCJ has heard 18 criminal appeals from Guyana in all of which the lawyers of the DPP’s Office have appeared.
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