Former CCJ Choose, Guyanese Duke Pollard dies

Professor Duke Pollard, one of many architects of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Courtroom of Justice (CCJ) has died in america, in accordance with family and media stories.

The Guyana-born Justice Pollard, who was among the many first set of judges on the CCJ that was established in 2001, died on Tuesday at a hospital. He was 86 years previous.

A biography of Pollard posted on the CCJ’s web site famous that he had “established himself as an knowledgeable jurist in worldwide regulation, specializing in worldwide financial regulation, the Regulation of the Sea, worldwide institutional regulation, the Regulation of Treaties, common integration regulation and financial integration regulation.

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“Aside from holding representational posts in quite a few and diversified worldwide conferences, Mr. Justice Pollard has written extensively on a multiplicity of points of worldwide regulation and has participated within the drafting of many essential CARICOM devices, together with the unique and revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and lots of the agreements and protocols that pertain particularly to the Caribbean Courtroom of Justice.

“He has authored a big physique of research, articles, monographs, and draft treaties and laws, constituting a formidable opus of reference materials,” it added.

Pollard was a former authorized marketing consultant on the Guyana-based Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Secretariat. He left the CCJ in June 2010 and likewise served as professor within the Regulation Division of the College of Guyana.

He performed a big position within the revision of the Treaty of Chaguaramas, which governs the regional integration motion, CARICOM.

Duke Pollard additionally served in Guyana’s international service from 1970 to 1974 and was married to Donna née Grant.

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