Ag. DPP recommended to be High Court judge

The Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) has recommended to President Max Richards that Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Carla Brown-Antoine be appointed as a judge of the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago.

The JLSC had recommended Brown-Antoine for appointment to the vacant post of DPP but Prime Minister Patrick Manning objected to that and the commission agreed to leave her in the acting position until it finds an acceptable candidate.

So far it has not found a suitable DPP candidate so if the president appoints Brown-Antoine to the High Court, the DPP's position would remain vacant.

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Brown-Atoine's mother, social activist Hazel Brown, told the Trinidad Guardian, “One of the things about being a judge is that it means being out of the reach of the political directorate".

The judiciary’s court protocol and information manager, Jones P. Madeira, said in a news release Brown-Antoine is one of three persons recommended to be high court justices.

The others are Justices Andre Mondesir and Ronnie Boodoosingh. Mondesir and Boodoosingh are already serving on the Bench as temporary judges, and each has more than 15 years’ experience in the legal profession.

Brown-Antoine is a national scholarship winner from St Joseph’s Convent, Port-of-Spain. She attained her LLB from University of the West Indies and her legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School.

Since 1989, Browne-Antoine has been with the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.