THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ADRIAN SAUNDERS, PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
The Honourable Mr Justice Adrian Saunders
The Honourable Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), is a native of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He joined the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) High Court Bench in 1996, after 19 years of private practice. On May 1, 2003 he was appointed to the ECSC’s Court of Appeal and served as acting Chief Justice between 2004 and 2005. Due to his active engagement in advancing judicial integrity, Mr Justice Saunders was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration.
Mr Justice Saunders has written many legal articles and publications. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Caribbean Civil Court Practice and a co-author of Fundamentals of Caribbean Constitutional Law. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West Indies. He is also an Honorary Bencher of the Society of the Inner Temple. In 2005 Justice Saunders was among the first cohort of judges to be appointed to the newly created Caribbean Court of Justice. In 2018 he was appointed President of that Court for a seven-year term.