PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 14, CMC – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Winston Anderson, Friday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” , the unauthorised disclosure and publication of confidential material relating to the internal deliberations and confidential correspondence of the Court.
In a statement, Justce Anderson said recent press reports and publications concerning the internal affairs of the CCJ “have understandably caused concern, anxiety and profound sadness, both within the institution and across the region”.
He said “this has been particularly distressing because the Caribbean Court of Justice is far more than a judicial institution. It is the product of decades of blood, sweat and tears, by Caribbean people who believed that our region was capable of establishing and sustaining its own final court.”
The Trinidad and Tobago Sunday Express newspaper last weekend reported that Justice Anderson, who had become the fourth CCJ president on July 6, 2025, had been accused by a majority of his fellow judges of governing the regional court in an “authoritarian” and “dictatorial” manner.
The newspaper said that the complaints range from unilaterally imposing a judicial dress code to allegations of “panel fixing” and attempts to influence the outcome of cases.
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