Ivor Archie
{{short description|Trinidadian jurist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = The Honourable
| name = Ivor Archie
| honorific-suffix = ORTT
| image = IvorArchie.jpg
| caption = Archie in 2019
| order = 8th
| office = Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago
| primeminister = Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Keith Rowley
| term_start = 22 November 2008
| term_end =
| predecessor = Satnarine Sharma
| successor =
| birth_name = Ivor Ainsworth Archie
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|08|18|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago
| alma_mater = University of the West Indies, St.Augustine
| spouse = Denise Rodriguez‑Archie
| children = 2
| occupation = Chief Justice
| awards = Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (2013)
}}
Ivor Archie {{post-nominals|list=ORTT}} (born 18 August 1960) is a Trinidadian Jurist who has served as Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago since 2008. He was formerly Solicitor general of the Cayman Islands from 1995 until his return to Trinidad in 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.ttlawcourts.org/index.php/about-the-judiciary-1/the-chief-justices|title=The Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago : About the Judiciary : The Chief Justice|website=Ttlawcourts.org|access-date=13 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.middletemple.org.uk/bencher-persons-view?cid=45215|title=Middle Temple|website=Middletemple.org.uk|access-date=13 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20171111/news/a-favour-for-a-friend|title=A favour for CJ's friend?|date=11 November 2017|website=Trinidadexpress.com|access-date=13 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2017-11-01/invasion-privacy|title=Invasion of privacy|website=The Trinidad Guardian Newspaper|access-date=13 December 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://wp.caribbeannewsnow.com/2017/11/12/yet-another-controversy-trinidad-chief-justice/# |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214014259/http://wp.caribbeannewsnow.com/2017/11/12/yet-another-controversy-trinidad-chief-justice/# |archive-date=2017-12-14 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://newsday.co.tt/2017/11/18/judge-writes-judges-on-cj-archie/|title=Judge writes judges on CJ Archie - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday|date=18 November 2017|website=Newsday.co.tt|access-date=13 December 2017}}
Personal life
He was born on 18 August 1960, in Tobago. He attended Scarborough Anglican Boys’ School, Bishop’s High School, and St Mary’s College.
He is married to Denise Rodriguez-Archie and they have two children, Chinyere and Sean.
Career
He graduated with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (upper second class honours) from the University of the West Indies in 1980. He worked as an engineer at Trintoplan Consultants Limited in Trinidad and at Schlumberger in Libya.
Archie then studied law at the Solent University in Southampton, England, receiving his LLB in 1984. He received his Legal Education Certificate at Hugh Wooding Law School in St Augustine. He was admitted to the Bar of Trinidad and Tobago in 1986. Archie worked initially for Clarke and Company. He then served as State Counsel and Senior Crown Counsel for the governments of Trinidad and Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands. He was Solicitor General of the Cayman Islands and acted on occasion as the Attorney General.
On 1 March 1998, he was appointed a puisine judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature. He became a Justice of Appeal on 2 April 2004, and chief justice on 24 January 2008. He is the eighth chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago and the youngest person to have taken the role. He is Chairman of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Judicial Education Institute, and a fellow of the Board of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute. In 2013, he received the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2018, he lost a legal battle to prevent the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) from investigating allegations over his "close ties" to Dillian Johnson, a gay man{{cite news |last1=Booth |first1=Robert |title=Questions over shooting of gay man with links to Trinidad judge |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/questions-over-shooting-of-gay-man-with-links-to-trinidad-judge |work=The Guardian |date=28 February 2018}} and convicted felon who fled Trinidad after surviving an attempted shooting.{{cite news |last1=Bowcott |first1=Owen |last2=correspondent |first2=Owen Bowcott Legal affairs |title=Trinidad judge loses bid to halt legal inquiry into his private life |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/aug/16/trinidad-judge-loses-bid-to-halt-legal-inquiry-into-his-private-life |work=The Guardian |date=16 August 2018}} LATT conducted its investigation and voted to report Archie to the Prime Minister, who has sole authority in Trinidad and Tobago for recommending discipline and removal of judges. Prime Minster Keith Rowley declined to pursue impeachment, saying that he had been advised there was a "lack of evidence".{{cite news |last1=Loutoo |first1=Jada |title=Law Association drops pursuit of legal costs in case against Chief Justice |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2023/07/25/law-association-drops-pursuit-of-legal-costs-in-case-against-chief-justice/ |work=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |date=25 July 2023}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUrzk_v0ynE|title=Mr. Justice Ivor Archie|date=19 April 2011|access-date=13 December 2017|publisher=YouTube}}
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