Management Committee

Patron of CCJ Academy for Law

The Hon. Mr. Justice Winston Charles Anderson

President of The Caribbean Court of Justice

The Honourable Mr Justice Winston Charles Anderson is of Jamaican nationality and upbringing. He was born in 1960 in Saint Ann’s Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in the rural village of Brittonville. He attended Brittonville Primary School and Ferncourt High School before transferring to St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) in Kingston.

In 1980, Justice Anderson entered the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies (UWI), graduating in 1983 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. From 1983 to 1984, he taught undergraduate courses, including International Law, at UWI while pursuing the Master of Laws (LLM) degree.

In 1984, he proceeded to the University of Cambridge, England, on the Commonwealth and Chevening Scholarships. He graduated in 1988 with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), specialising in International and Environmental Law. That same year, he completed professional training at the Inns of Court School of Law in London and was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a Barrister of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.

Dr Anderson rejoined the UWI Faculty of Law in 1988 as a lecturer and was called to the Bar of Barbados in 1989. He was awarded indefinite tenure in 1994 and subsequently served as Deputy Dean and Head of the Teaching Department of Law. His academic career included appointments as Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield (1994–1995), Senior Lecturer (while on Fellowship Leave) at the University of Western Australia (1996), and Senior Lecturer in Law at UWI from 1999.

From 2003 to 2006, Dr Anderson served as General Counsel of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on secondment from UWI. In 2006, he was appointed Professor of Law at UWI and, in the same year, was called to the Bar of Jamaica. He was appointed Executive Director of the Caribbean Law Institute Centre in 2007, a position he held until 2010.

On 15 June 2010, Professor Anderson was sworn in as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a ceremony held at King’s House, Jamaica, presided over by His Excellency Sir Patrick Allen, Governor-General of Jamaica, and attended by the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Chief Justice, and other local and international dignitaries. He holds the distinction of being the first Jamaican appointed to the CCJ and, at age 49, the youngest judge ever elevated to the Court. He was also the first CCJ judge whose swearing-in ceremony was held in his country of origin and the first to deliver a substantive response upon appointment to the Bench.

In 2010, Justice Anderson founded the CCJ Academy for Law, the educational arm of the Court, and served as its chairman from 2010 to 2025. Under his leadership, the Academy became a flagship institution for regional legal education, research, judicial outreach, and capacity-building, and he was instrumental in shaping its vision, governance, and scholarly output.

Justice Anderson has held several key internal appointments within the CCJ, including Chair of the Privileges and Immunities Committee; Chair of the Committee on Guidelines, Administrative Decisions and Directives (GADDS), now the Policies and Procedures Approval Committee (PPAC); and membership on the Court’s Monitoring and Evaluation Committee. Since 2011, he has played a central role in the Annual CCJ International Mooting Competition as a judge, organiser, and mentor, and has been a consistent point person for the planning and execution of major Court initiatives with regional and international stakeholders.

Beyond the Court, Justice Anderson holds numerous distinguished global and regional appointments. These include founding Member of the International Advisory Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2012); Member of the Advisory Commission on Environmental Law to the Organisation of American States (OAS) (2013); Member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Group of Experts (2014); Chairman of the Disciplinary and Ethics Committees of Cricket West Indies (CWI) (2017); Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Code of Conduct Commission (2018); Member of the ICC Dispute Resolution Committee (renewed from 1 January 2023); and Judge of the global Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) from 2021.

In 2022, Justice Anderson was accorded the signal honour of appointment as Presiding Judge and Chairman of the apex court of the Republic of Seychelles, comprised of judges from other Commonwealth apex courts, to adjudicate the matter of Eastern European Engineering Ltd v Vijay. He was appointed by the Constitutional Appointments Authority and sworn into office by the President of the Republic of Seychelles.

Justice Anderson is a prolific scholar and the author of numerous refereed articles in leading global and regional law journals. His major publications include The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean (BRILL, 2022); Ensuring Environmental Access Rights in the Caribbean (ECLAC, 2018); Caribbean Private International Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 2014); Principles of Caribbean Environmental Law (ELI, 2012); and The Law of Caribbean Marine Pollution (Kluwer, 1997).

As founder and long-standing Chairman of the CCJ Academy for Law, Justice Anderson also served as editor or co-editor of several of the Academy’s seminal publications, including Eminent Caribbean Jurists: Pioneering Caribbean Women Jurists (2021); Legal Dimensions Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020); and Eminent Caribbean Jurists: Eminent Caribbean International Law Jurists (2019).

Justice Anderson has maintained strong ties to his alma mater. He was invited to deliver the keynote address at the 50th and 60th anniversary celebrations of St Andrew Technical High School in 2011 and 2021, respectively, and in 2018 was recognised as one of the most outstanding graduates in the 70-year history of the University of the West Indies.

The Honourable Mr Justice Anderson is the father of three children; Anessa, Aleisha, and Anquan, and holds Barbadian nationality in addition to his native Jamaican nationality. He was sworn in as President of the Caribbean Court of Justice on 6 July 2025

CCJ Academy for Law Management Committee

The Hon Mme Justice Chantal Ononaiwu

Chair

The Honourable Madame Justice Chantal Ononaiwu took the oath of office as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice on 29 October 2024.

She was appointed the Chair of the CCJ Academy for Law in November 2025, having served as its Deputy Chair since October 2024.

Justice Ononaiwu also served as Director, Value Proposition Development at Invest Barbados and a Vice-Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards Initiative Legal Reform Advisory Board. She was counsel in the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers in Jamaica.

Justice Ononaiwu has over 20 years’ experience at the Bar, with specialist expertise in Caribbean Community Law and International Law, including International Trade Law, and varied legal experience as an adjudicator, litigator, legal advisor and university lecturer.

She was the Director, External Trade at the CARICOM Secretariat, leading the coordination of CARICOM’s external trade policy. During her tenure at CARICOM, Justice Ononaiwu advised on international trade and investment issues, was a negotiator of CARICOM’s international trade agreements and represented the Community in cases before the CCJ in its original jurisdiction. She was also a member of a panel that adjudicated on a World Trade Organization dispute.

She has lectured International Trade and Investment Law, Public International Law and Criminal Law. Her academic publications span the areas of International Trade Law, Investment Law, Public International Law and Constitutional Law.

Justice Ononaiwu is the President of the Caribbean Branch of the International Law Association and the first Diversity and Inclusion Officer of the International Law Association.She is a Rhodes Scholar and holds a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford, an LLM from the University of Cambridge and an LLB (First Class Honours) from the University of the West Indies, as well as a Legal Education Certificate of Merit from the Norman Manley Law School.

The Hon Mme Justice Mira Dean-Armorer

Deputy-Chair

Justice Dean-Armorer was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago on 27^th January, 2020 and continues to hold the post of Justice of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago.

Prior to her appointment, she served as a High Court Judge for some eighteen (18) years, two of which were spent in Family Court, which was then a pilot project.

Prior to joining the bench, Justice Dean-Armorer shared chambers with Justice Rajnauth-Lee (now JCCJ) for three (3) years before which she served as State Counsel in the Solicitor General Department’s and held the post of Assistant Solicitor General, just prior to retiring from the department. Justice Dean-Armorer has practiced in all areas of civil law with particular emphasis on public law.

Justice Dean-Armorer was awarded a national scholarship prior to embarking on her studies at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, where she obtained her LLB degree (upper second class honours ) and later the Legal Education Certificate from Hugh Wooding Law School.

Justice Dean-Armorer also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of London and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the University of the West Indies. She was appointed an External Director on the Board of the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy for Law in 2017 and was appointed as the Deputy Chair of the Academy in 2025 .

Justice Dean-Armorer has been married for thirty-five (35) years to Attorney-at-Law Gregory Armorer. They have three adult children, who respectively practice as a professional engineer, a medical doctor and an attorney-at-law.

When not working, Justice Dean-Armorer enjoys serving in the music ministry of her church, where she sings and plays the violin. She also enjoys the creation and appreciation of visual art. Aside from her children, Justice Dean-Armorer finds her greatest joy in the service to the people of Trinidad and Tobago, by faithfully striving to bring forth justice.