Sir George Newman Memorial Lecture

On Monday 19 January Jeffrey Golden HC (Hon), Senior Clerk James Donovan, and associate member Bertha Cooper-Rosseau attended the Sir George Newman Memorial Lecture hosted out in the Bahamas in conjunction with The Bahamas Bar Association and Middle Temple. A tribute was led by Indira Demeritte-Francis (President of the Industrial Tribunal), and followed by a Lecture from Master Treasurer of Middle Temple Bernard Richmond KC.

Sir George Newman was a former Head of Chambers at 3 Hare Court; he was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1965 and took silk in 1981. During his career at the Bar, as well as being involved in international commercial cases, he was one of the leading practitioners in the Privy Council and was instructed on a number of occasions in matters of constitutional settlement and reform arising out of armed conflict, including events in Fiji and Trinidad and Tobago. Sir George served as a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division from 1995 to 2007. He gained considerable experience in a wide range of judicial review cases and human rights matters as a Judge. Sir George served as a non resident Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas and as a Judge of the Court of Appeal in the Cayman Islands.